airborne disease
Sign in to savedisease that is caused by pathogens and transmitted through the air for definite place to place spread throughout by concentration of pathogens and pattern of spreading
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- Subclass of
- infectious disease
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- has immediate cause
- airborne transmission
- Commons category
- Airborne diseases
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject COVID-19
- topic's main category
- Category:Airborne diseases
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Encyclopedic overview
Infected people generate larger droplets and aerosols which can infect over longer distances
A poster outlining precautions for airborne transmission in healthcare settings. It is intended to be posted outside rooms of patients with an infection that can spread through airborne transmission. Video explainer on reducing airborne pathogen transmission indoors
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “airborne disease” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.