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  2. Fomite - Wikipedia

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    Contact with aerosolized virus (large droplet spread) generated via talking, sneezing, coughing, or vomiting, toilet flushing & produced toilet plume [19] or contact with airborne virus that settles after disturbance of a contaminated fomite (e.g. shaking a contaminated blanket). During the first 24 hours, the risk can be reduced by increasing ...

  3. Spreadability - Wikipedia

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    Spreadable media must be quotable and grabbable, as well as easily portable and shareable, thus allowing audiences to re-use and consume. [1] In 2010, Jenkins argued that the news industry lacked a sense of spreadability held within the social media markets. [20] Consequently, Fake news is vastly spread

  4. Pathogen transmission - Wikipedia

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    An infectious disease agent can be transmitted in two ways: as horizontal disease agent transmission from one individual to another in the same generation (peers in the same age group) [3] by either direct contact (licking, touching, biting), or indirect contact through air – cough or sneeze (vectors or fomites that allow the transmission of the agent causing the disease without physical ...

  5. Everything you need to know about the easily spread BQ ... - AOL

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    Already the dominant COVID-19 strains in the U.S., BQ subvariants are likely to be dominant in North Carolina in coming weeks.

  6. Combustibility and flammability - Wikipedia

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    The word "inflammable" may be erroneously thought to mean "non-flammable". [3] The erroneous usage of the word "inflammable" is a significant safety hazard. Therefore, since the 1950s, efforts to put forward the use of "flammable" in place of "inflammable" were accepted by linguists, and it is now the accepted standard in American English and ...

  7. Mass psychogenic illness - Wikipedia

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    a spread that moves down the age scale, beginning with older or higher-status people; British psychiatrist Simon Wessely distinguishes between two forms of MPI: [5] Mass anxiety hysteria "consists of episodes of acute anxiety, occurring mainly in schoolchildren. Prior tension is absent and the rapid spread is by visual contact." [9]

  8. Human-to-human transmission - Wikipedia

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    Relevant microbes may be viruses, bacteria, or fungi, and they may be spread through breathing, talking, coughing, sneezing, spraying of liquids, toilet flushing or any activities which generate aerosol particles or droplets or generate fomites, such as raising of dust.

  9. Airborne transmission - Wikipedia

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    It is intended to be posted outside rooms of patients with an infection that can spread through airborne transmission. [1] Video explainer on reducing airborne pathogen transmission indoors Airborne transmission or aerosol transmission is transmission of an infectious disease through small particles suspended in the air. [ 2 ]