Talk:Airborne transmission

This article is irritating
This here states that "the virus is not considered airborne", although there it clearly means droplet transmission, which in this article is part of "airborne disease". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Utonsal (talk • contribs) 23:31, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

I have removed such a claim. The hard difference aerosols vs. droplets has been disproven in Apr 2020 by MEDRS.

Zezen (talk) 05:32, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Droplet tranmission classified as airborne?
I am confused by this bit in the current version of this article:

1. The relevant pathogens [...] may be spread through coughing, sneezing, raising of dust, spraying of liquids, or similar activities likely to generate aerosol particles or droplets.

See also the current version of a related [Transmission article]: Also known as the respiratory route, and the resultant infection can be termed airborne disease. If an infected person coughs or sneezes on another person the microorganisms, suspended in warm, moist droplets, may enter the body through the nose, mouth or eye surfaces.

2. Now, according to the updated CDC guidelines (as of 27 OCT 2014) EVD (Ebola) is "droplet borne" (see my tracking of such changes in the official ebola epidemiologicial advice on my blog).

Taken together, do both 1 and 2 imply that "Ebola is airborne", a statement dreaded and ridiculed by many so far?

If not, we need to precise the wording of such Wikipedia articles, to split hairs and differentiate.

Zezen (talk) 08:29, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

See http://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/resources/glossary.html - specifically the last paragraph of the 'airborne transmission' definition.

2620:0:B60:3:187C:D34D:D348:2FD8 (talk) 00:56, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Droplets are also transmitted by talking: Sciencia58 (talk) 18:36, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Airborne disease. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120628073116/http://www.nutramed.com/Air/airborne_diseases.htm to http://www.nutramed.com/Air/airborne_diseases.htm

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 19:23, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Merge proposal
There is a continuum between respiratory droplets and airborne transmission that are better served under the one article. The droplet size cutoff is not well supported experimentally. The history and the debate can be better covered in the one article which shows how there is a continuum, that COVID-19 seems to straddle rather than sticking to separate articles with an arbitrary 5 micron cutoff. --Investigatory (talk) 13:05, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Just because the size demarcation isn't sharp doesn't mean that they are the same thing. Respriatory droplets and aerosols are also distinguished by water content.  John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 19:10, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose in particular, I think the current definition and historical context of droplets gives it enough notability in itself to have a separate topic. It is also, I feel, long enough to maintain an article by itself. --Tom (LT) (talk) 04:40, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Infectious?
The intro starts out saying An airborne transmission is disease transmission through small particulates… But it then limits this to viruses, bacteria or fungi, and rules out chemical toxins. This makes we wonder if we should insert the word infectious in the opening sentence: An airborne transmission is infectious disease transmission through small particulates… (Are there any non-infectious airborne diseases?) —MiguelMunoz (talk) 09:01, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

More historical perspective to add
See https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill for a popular overview with a link to Randall et al.'s article. Ain92 (talk) 17:28, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Merge with Miasma theory
I propose to merge Miasma theory into Airborne transmission.

Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment
This article is the subject of an educational assignment at Clemson University supported by the Wikipedia Ambassador Program&#32;during the 2011 Q3 term. Further details are available on the course page.

The above message was substituted from by PrimeBOT (talk) on 16:26, 2 January 2023 (UTC)