Most of the respiratory viruses including SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, influenza, measles, and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold can all spread via aerosols.

Researchers reported last week in the journal Physics of Fluids that tiny particles called aerosols probably don’t spread the virus that causes COVID-19 as effectively as larger droplets that ...

“What are traditionally called droplet precautions are not replaced wholesale, but instead are modified, expanded and deployed in a more effective manner in accordance with actual transmission ...

Coronavirus airborne spread was a hot topic this week, as hundreds of scientists urged the World Health Organization to acknowledge the importance of aerosols in COVID-19 transmission. The WHO ...

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 ...

Coronavirus can be airborne and these 239 scientists want people to know about aerosol and droplet transmission of Covid-19. ... and droplet precautions,” Milton and colleagues wrote in the ...

Measles, TB, and some other diseases/pathogens require airborne precautions, it states. "When Droplet Precautions are recommended, surgical masks function to reduce the transmission of large ...

Special management protocols and modified measures that regulate droplet and aerosol contamination in a dental setting have to be introduced and may include the reduction or avoidance of droplet ...

In U.S. health-care settings, precautions against aerosols are usually already in place, partly because health-care workers undertake procedures—such as intubation—that generate aerosols even ...

From early on in the pandemic in Australia and around the world, debate has raged as to whether Covid-19 spreads via the airborne or droplet route. At the heart of the feud between Australia’s ...

The virus that causes severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, or SFTS, may have been transmitted person-to-person via aerosols at a hospital in South Korea, indicating that airborne ...