(1) The microbes that cause infection are transmitted to people in several ways. (2) First, there is direct transmission, which involves bodily contact with an infected person. (3) Examples are passing along a cold through handshaking, or herpes through sexual relations. (4) There is also indirect transmission, which occurs when microbes are passed from an infected person to an individual via airborne particles, water, food, or anything else the infected person touches. (5) For example, someone might catch the flu by drinking from a glass that has been used by a person with the flu. (6) Finally animals and insects can transmit microbes. (7) Flies, for instance, carry harmful microbes on their feet, and can transmit them to people by landing on their food.

1. The pattern of organization of the selection is: LIST or TIME