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Instead, Milton and Roy proposed a three-tiered classification system for aerosol-transmitted infections. In this system, potentially airborne diseases are either “obligate, preferential, or opportunistic...
...obligate” airborne disease is one that only infects people via aerosol. Preferential airborne diseases can be transmitted in other ways, but spread primarily through aerosol. The “opportunistic” category includes diseases that generally infect people through other means, but may be transmitted through the lungs as well...
...virtually impenetrable security of a BSL-4 facility enables researchers to work with such parlous pathogens as aerosol-state Anthrax...
...DIED. Robert Abplanalp, 81, inventor of the plastic valve used to distribute aerosol sprays; in Bronxville, New York. After making a fortune on his patented valve?some 4 billion are manufactured each year?Abplanalp became better known as one of former President Richard Nixon's closest friends and confidants?including during Nixon's 1974 resignation?a role Abplanalp described with modesty. "My job," he once said, "was to tell a couple of small jokes...
SARS is caused by a corona virus and produces fever and flu-like symptoms. The virus, likely transmitted by aerosol droplets, had killed 764 people and infected more than 8,000 as of last week. The disease is thought to have originated in China last fall...