Infection control staff implemented an integrated approach, utilizing active and enhanced surveillance,
early airborne infection isolation, rapid molecular diagnostic testing, and extensive tracing for healthcare workers with unprotected exposure.
This settled a longstanding dispute over whether flu can spread solely as
an airborne infection, or whether physical contact is needed.
So far, other than a freelance NBC camera operator receiving care in Nebraska after being transferred there for care, the Dallas patient remains the only Ebola patient in the U.S. Ebola is not
an airborne infection and the World Health Organization has taken pains to point out that «spread of the virus via coughing or sneezing is rare, if it happens at all.»
The health organization also emphasizes that Ebola virus disease is not
an airborne infection.
As
an airborne infection, influenza is transmitted easily and quickly, and its effects can be acute, although there is wide variability in response to infection.
It is caused by
an airborne infection that is usually passed where there are a large number of dogs, such as animal shelters and boarding kennels.
Bordetella — This vaccine prevents against
the airborne infection that causes bronchitis and bronchopneumonia.
The airborne infection spreads when a dog comes in contact with another infected dog.
The masks with long beaks once worn by plague doctors to ward off
airborne infection, and depicted in several works in this show, were also the source material for a playful commedia dell» arte costume, «Medico della Peste».