Direct contact transmission refers to spread of infection when an infected person directly deposits the infectious agent onto someone else who then contracts the illness. For example, someone with a cold touches their mouth, nose or eyes (mucous membranes) or coughs or sneezes into their hands, before touching someone else, who then touches their own mucous membranes and subsequently becomes sick.
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