infectious vs transmissible

infectious

adj
  • Able to infect others. 

  • Memorable and invoking excitement or interest. 

  • Spreading quickly from one person to another. 

  • Caused by an agent that enters the host's body (such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion); often, also, transmitted among hosts via any of various routes (for example, contact, droplet-borne, airborne, waterborne, foodborne, fomite-borne, or bloodborne). 

transmissible

adj
  • Capable of being transmitted from one person to another. 

  • Capable of being transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver. 

How often have the words infectious and transmissible occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )