Sentences with phrase «airborne transmission of»

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.

In 2012, Kawaoka published a controversial paper reporting airborne transmission of engineered H5N1 flu between ferrets.

A laboratory test showing airborne transmission of the H7N9 avian influenza virus between the animals has raised fears that the virus is poised to become a human pandemic.

Short - distance airborne transmission of influenza viruses may occur, particularly in crowded enclosed spaces.

Not exact matches

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.

Just after sunset a shoe box — size airborne object collided with one of the choppers, damaging its main rotor blade, window frame and transmission system.

Because only one of three ferrets that could have contracted the new H7N9 virus through the air actually did, the researchers conclude that airborne H7N9 transmission is inefficient.

Second, the airborne method would have to be so much more efficient than the current extremely efficient means of transmission that it would overcome any genetic costs to the virus stemming from the mutation itself.

«The emergence of A H7N9 influenza in March 2013 posed a public health threat both locally and internationally because of the risk for airborne transmission,» said K.Y. Yuen, MD, FRCPath, a lead author of the study.

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.

Kenneth Gage, plague section chief of the CDC, notes that historically plague may have been transmitted among humans by the so - called human flea, Pulex irritans, or via airborne transmission.

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).

Canine Distemper is spread through bodily secretions (nasal fluid for example) The most common form of transmission is airborne.

The basic transmission of the canine distemper virus is spread through secretions of bodily fluids, such as urine, blood feces as well as airborne transmissions, such as coughing and sneezing by infected animals.

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 zoonotic pathogens of most concern to any facility — whether an animal shelter, veterinary hospital, boarding facility or chicken farm — are scrutinized to determine their kill rates and the subsequent reduction in airborne transmission that are possible when a disinfection system is installed in an existing animal facility.

Acoustics Test results show that because the mass of the wall contributes to acoustic performance, CLT building systems provide superior noise control for both airborne and impact sound 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.