Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Monkeypox may sometimes spread through the air

After adding, and then deleting, a recommendation that U.S. travelers wear masks to protect themselves from monkeypox, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still says that those traveling to countries where ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

COVID-19 exposure possible outside of home isolation rooms

A Rutgers study has detected tiny airborne particles containing RNA from the SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19, both inside and outside of the rooms in which infected people were self-isolating at home. This finding suggests ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

It's not just SARS-CoV-2: Most respiratory viruses spread by aerosols

SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind today's global coronavirus pandemic, spreads primarily by inhalation of virus-laden aerosols at both short and long ranges —and a comprehensive new assessment of respiratory viruses finds that ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Schools can reopen safely: An epidemiologist weighs in

Just when schools were getting ready to reopen for the new school year, cases of COVID-19 started surging in the United States, driven in large part by the more contagious delta variant. School administrators around the country ...

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