Sentences with phrase «airborne disease transmission»
More seriously, an Australian team reviewing the literature on open - plan offices — while confirming the British program's findings about productivity — found more «shocking» effects on health and well - being, such as higher airborne disease transmission in workplaces without walls.
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Years ago, when Mass Design was in the early stages of planning and designing Butaro Hospital in the Burera District of Rwanda, it faced a serious design challenge: To reduce the transmission of airborne diseases like TB.
Ex-prisoners, often with improperly treated TB that had mutated into the multidrug resistant form of the disease, moved back into cramped apartment blocs where, during the long, cold Siberian winters, hallways and unventilated apartments provided ideal conditions for airborne transmission to unwary neighbors, friends and family members.
However, the modelling work also offers some encouraging news: the airborne transmission of the disease from East African countries directly to South Asia is highly unlikely, with transmission events possible only on less than one day a year.
Human interactions with indoor airborne microbes have been investigated for more than a century (Tyndall, 1881; Carnelley, Haldane & Anderson, 1887; Tyndall, 1876), although almost exclusively from the perspective of disease and airborne - transmission of pathogens (Noble et al., 1976; Sherertz, Bassetti & Bassetti - Wyss, 2001; Tang et al., 2011).
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Other possible job hazards include exposure to corrosive chemicals and cleaning agents, exposure to feral and vicious animals, to animals with an unknown health history and therefore, exposure to zoonotic diseases through the use of hypodermic needles, animal bites and scratches, airborne transmission, and physical contact.
The disease is spread by direct contact and via airborne transmission.
Through partnerships with Partners in Health, the Clinton Foundation and the Government of Rwanda, Murphy helped lead the design on Butaro Hospital in Rwanda, assisting with breakthrough architectural solutions to mitigate and reduce the transmission of airborne diseases like Tuberculosis.