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New research shows that the flu virus can be airborne not just carried by droplets

January 20th, 2018

PNAS

Osterholm:  “Respiratory droplets are like boulders that fall quickly over a short distance, while aerosols are like the perfume that can be smelled from a store’s fragrance department three aisles away.”

Jing Yan, et al. and EMIT Consortium.  Infectious virus in exhaled breath of symptomatic seasonal influenza cases from a college community PNAS 2018 ; published ahead of print January 18, 2018, doi:10.1073/pnas.1716561115

Research significance:  “…..We show that sneezing is rare and not important for—and that coughing is not required for—influenza virus aerosolization….”

 

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