Technically you can't "transmit" the disease. The disease consists of the effects on the body.
Also, you can transmit the virus without having the disease, which is what makes it dangerous since you have no idea. It's like you can transmit HIV without having AIDS for years:
>Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is defined in terms of either a CD4+ T cell count below 200 cells per µL or the occurrence of specific diseases in association with an HIV infection
That doesn't happen for a long time (or today, for a lot of people, never).
Well, fair. My assessment was based on the assumption that the distribution of outcomes for a patient isn't affected by the source of the infection. If you had some hypothetical way of transmitting the virus only to hosts who would then develop symptoms of the disease, I guess you could argue that you could reduce transmissions of the virus while maintaining transmissions of the disease.
Technically you can't "transmit" the disease. The disease consists of the effects on the body.
Also, you can transmit the virus without having the disease, which is what makes it dangerous since you have no idea. It's like you can transmit HIV without having AIDS for years:
>Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is defined in terms of either a CD4+ T cell count below 200 cells per µL or the occurrence of specific diseases in association with an HIV infection
That doesn't happen for a long time (or today, for a lot of people, never).