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COVID Airborne Transmission v. Monkeypox: Key Differences between viruses
By Aristos Georgiou
More than 1,000 cases of monkeypox have been
confirmed around the world in several countries where the
disease is not usually found - including the United States -
raising questions about how the virus is spreading. But can
monkeypox, a rare disease that is usually restricted to
parts of Central and West Africa, spread via airborne
transmission like the SARS-CoV-2 virus?
Some infectious diseases can spread through
airborne transmission via tiny respiratory droplets known
as aerosols that can become suspended in the air. These
droplets are produced when an individual exhales,
sneezes, coughs, talks, or sings, for example. These
droplets can contain live viruses or other pathogens that
can potentially infect healthy people if they land in the
eyes, nose or mouth.
Airborne transmission does not require face-toface contact, and, in fact, an infected person does not even
have to be in the same room as another individual to infect
them because the droplets can linger in the air for some
time,
Several diseases spread through airborne
transmission, including measles and chickenpox. Others,
meanwhile, can spread via larger respiratory droplets that
do not float in the air as easily and fall to the ground faster.
SARS-CoV-2' spreads through exposure to
respiratory fluids containirig the infectious virus, and, while
it was not clear if the early stages of the: "CÓVID-19
pandemic, we now kriow that this can include âerosols. poa tt
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Aerosols are so important for the scientific issues raised in
the text because: