Living and breathing = aerosol-generating procedure

Eli, who is busy this week attending ScienceOnline2013, pointed me to this newly published study in Journal of Infectious Diseases on influenza transmission. Werner Bischoff and colleagues at Wake Forest measured influenza virus RNA concentrations in air samples taken between 1-6 feet from influenza-infected patients’ heads during routine care. Among the 61 influenza patients they analyzed, 26 released measurable influenza RNA into room air, and 5 did so in very high concentrations. The […]