Sentences with phrase «sneeze droplets»

Other viruses, such as feline herpesvirus, calicivirus can be spread through sneeze droplets and saliva.

But it wasn't clear how far sneeze droplets can spread, or why some people are more likely to spread illness through sneezes than others.

Rather, sneeze droplets «undergo a complex cascading breakup that continues after they leave the lungs, pass over the lips and churn through the air,» said Bourouiba, who is head of MIT's Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory.

In their latest new study, they discovered how sneeze droplets are formed within what they called a «high - propulsion sneeze cloud.»

In a prior study, the team led by MIT's Lydia Bourouiba found that within a few minutes, sneeze droplets can cover an area the size of a room and reach ventilation ducts at ceiling height.

Just remember to wash your hands after using a tissue or hanky, or those sneeze droplets will leave your lurgy on whatever you touch.

(who knows the significance of our personal shedded skin cells, hair, sneeze droplets or other excretions on the overall workings of the cosmos - not saying that I take any particular pride or glory in any of those possible effects?)

Our «universe» could be like a seed in the wind (maybe one of many) with a set of physics that programmed the effects that we see - and the original plant has no knowledge or effect on its progress - or a shed skin cell - or a sneeze droplet.

The illness is transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids — including saliva, urine, blood and coughed or sneezed droplets — from an infected animal.

The viruses are often transmitted by direct or close contact between cats (eg, in sneezed droplets), but they may also survive for short periods in the environment.

Canine distemper virus is passed rapidly through coughed or sneezed droplets of saliva.

Not exact matches

If your baby is near someone with the flu who is coughing or sneezing, he may breathe in infected droplets through his mouth or nose.

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Influenza or «flu» is a viral respiratory illness, mainly spread by droplets made when people with flu cough, sneeze or talk.

Teach your child to hold a cloth over his nose when he is close to the person with the cold, in order to avoid contact with the droplets that are let out when the person sneezes.

Like the flu, measles can spread through the air via droplets carried by sneezes, coughs and breathing.

TB is a bacterial infection, spread through inhaling tiny droplets from the coughs or sneezes of an infected person.

Influenza is thought to spread among humans three ways — touch; coughing and sneezing, which launches droplets containing virus from the lungs onto surfaces; and aerosols, smaller droplets suspended in the air that could be inhaled (SN: 6/29/13, p. 9).

Measles is so infectious — it spreads through the droplets from a sneeze or cough — that a single sick person who walks into a community of completely nonimmunized people infects 12 to 18 of them.

Next Page: Stay away from sickies [pagebreak] Stay away from sickies Getty Images The flu gets passed around primarily when infected people sneeze, cough, or just talk, sending tiny, virus - filled water droplets out of their mouths and noses and into yours, from as far as 6 to 10 feet away.

Looser - fitting surgical masks protect against large - particle droplets, splashes, sprays, or splatter, the FDA says, but they do nt completely block the germs from coughs and sneezes.

Aerosol spread (small droplets) is when the organisms which cause the disease are spread from the infected person via droplets in the air (caused by coughing, sneezing or during close conversation) and then inhaled by another person.

Influenza viruses rapidly spread by airborne droplets during sneezing, coughing and even talking.

It goes without saying that the disease can be spread by direct contact or by droplet infection (coughing and sneezing).

When the cat sneezes (or coughs), droplets become airborne and are then inhaled by healthy cats thereby spreading the virus and causing disease.

The virus is transmitted through the air by contact with infected droplets from coughing or sneezing.

Canine influenza is transmitted through droplets or aerosols containing respiratory secretions from coughing, barking and sneezing.

CIV is easily aerosolized when dogs cough and sneeze, as the virus droplets can be spread up to 25 feet.

Large droplets can be generated by patient coughs, sneezes, and vocalization and by veterinary personnel during such procedures as lancing of abscesses and dentistry procedures.

The virus is spread when an infected dog sneezes, and sprays infected droplets into his environment.

As you may know, CIV is highly contagious.2 Direct contact and droplets from sneezing or coughing spread CIV directly from dog to dog.

The virus is spread through secretions in saliva, respiratory passages, urine, and feces and by inhalation of airborne droplets from sneezes and coughs.

The viruses spread when an infected cat sneezes or coughs and your cat inhales the infected air droplets, or when your cat comes in contact with a water bowl, blanket, toy, litter box or other objects that contains the saliva of an infected cat.

The disease is transmitted «through droplets or aerosols containing respiratory secretions from coughing, barking and sneezing,» according to the American Veterinary Medical Association.

The virus can travel in droplets from a cough or sneeze and can be transmitted by contact with contaminated objects (for instance, a chew toy).

Susceptible dogs can pick it up from direct contact with the urine, blood, saliva, food and water of infected dogs, or by breathing air containing droplets coughed or sneezed from infected dogs.

Health officials say dog flu spreads the same way human flu does: through virus droplets in the air from a sneeze or cough, or by touching contaminated objects or surfaces.

While a person's breath can travel 4.5 feet per second, droplets from a sneeze can travel (insert shudder here) at about 100 miles per hour.

Colds are spread by touching infected surface and then touching your nose or eyes, and to a lesser extent the mouth; or inhaling virus - harboring droplets in the air after an infected person sneezes or coughs.

The lower the humidity, the more moisture evaporates from sneeze and cough droplets, the farther the germs can travel.

And, indeed, a sneeze is a powerful distributor of droplets, each of which might contain germs.