I'm looking for a close English equivalent to the Italian word "Untore." These were supposedly people who spread the plague deliberately by leaving substances on doorhandles and similar.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untore
An "Infector" is close, but doesn't really feel the same to me, so I thought I'd ask to see if anyone had a better suggestion.
Thank you - hope you don't find this too off-topic, but I'm a great believer in languages being more closely tied to thought than people usually realise, in computer languages as well as "natural" ones.