Airborne Infection Articles & Analysis
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That’s because COVID-19 spreads through respiratory droplets made when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or talks. These droplets can stay in the air for minutes or hours – and travel tens of meters on air currents – depending on their size and weight. ...
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TissUse will receive funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a human preclinical lung-liver-lymph node co-culture on a HUMIMIC Chip infectable with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This collaboration will contribute to the development of Tuberculosis vaccine candidates and treatment modalities. ...
Since 2015, Genano and Jiangsu Holly Group have executed several successful hospital projects in China, in the area of infection control and prevention of nosocomial infections caused by airborne pathogens. ...
Noroviruses can cause severe gastrointestinal illness in infected people. According to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), “People get a norovirus infection directly from an ill individual who did not wash his hands adequately, or indirectly from food or water contaminated by the stool or vomit from an infected person, or ...
Since 1999, C. gattii, which can also cause infections, has also been found in regions of the Pacific Northwest. C. neoformans typically infects immune-compromised persons. Most people in the United States who develop this infection are HIV-infected or have other conditions impacting their immune system. ...
Since 1999, C. gattii has been found in regions of the Pacific Northwest, particularly in Vancouver Island in British Columbia, and Oregon and Washington. C. neoformans typically infects immune-compromised persons. Most people in the United States who develop this infection are HIV-infected or have other conditions affecting their immune ...