0 someone who infects many more people with a disease than most other infected people do : --
It is impossible to know who will be a super-spreader and who will not.
A few super-spreaders appear to have transmitted the virus to as many as 10 people each.
The term "super-spreader" has been used to describe certain individuals who have been implicated in spreading Covid-19 to numerous other individuals.
The biggest threat here is of an unrecognized super-spreader being made to wait for hours in a major hospital's A&E.
The spread of the Sars virus was accelerated by a super-spreader patient in one of the city's hospitals.