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  2. Climate change and infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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    Climate change and increasing temperatures will also impact the health of wildlife animals as well. Specifically, climate change will impact wildlife disease, specifically affecting "geographic range and distribution of wildlife diseases, plant and animal phenology, wildlife host-pathogen interactions, and disease patterns in wildlife". [96]

  3. COVID-19 pandemic and animals - Wikipedia

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    Some 2,000 animals have been expected to be killed after a worker in a pet shop tested positive for the virus, which was also found among the pets. Conscious of the virus' ability to spread among hamsters, [38] and the possibility of transmission between species, in line with the territory's 'zero covid' policy, the cull was invoked. [39]

  4. Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

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    A public service announcement from the Government of California encouraging people to wear masks to "slow the spread". In late March 2020, some government officials began to focus on the wearing of masks to help prevent transmission of COVID-19 as opposed to protecting the wearer; former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb stated in a report that face masks would be "most effective" at slowing its ...

  5. Airborne transmission - Wikipedia

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    Climate affects temperature, winds and relative humidity, the main factors affecting the spread, duration and infectiousness of droplets containing infectious particles. [25] The influenza virus spreads easily in the Northern Hemisphere winter due to climate conditions that favour the infectiousness of the virus. [27]

  6. Cloth face mask - Wikipedia

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    A cloth face mask is a mask made of common textiles, usually cotton, worn over the mouth and nose.When more effective masks are not available, cloth face masks are recommended by public health agencies for disease source control in epidemic situations to protect others from virus-laden aerosols emitted by infected mask wearers' as they breathe, talk, cough, or sneeze.

  7. Animals could 'shrivel' in size due to global warming ... - AOL

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    See more on climate change: A University of New Hampshire researcher says the horses, originally approximately the size of a dog, "may have gone down to the size of a cat." That's not the only bad ...

  8. Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia

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    US Ambassador to Indonesia Sung Kim accompanied by local officials at the Presidential Palace wearing face masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic. During the COVID-19 pandemic, face masks or coverings, including N95, FFP2, surgical, and cloth masks, have been employed as public and personal health control measures against the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

  9. Amid a new COVID-19 surge, should we all be wearing masks ...

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    Amid this rise in the spread of illnesses, mask mandates are already back in some health care settings, including hospital systems in Los Angeles County and New York City. And many of us should ...