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SFTS virus may be transmitted via aerosols
Moon J, et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2018;doi:10.1017/ice.2018.330.
January 3, 2019
The virus that causes severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, or SFTS, may have been transmitted person-to-person via aerosols at a hospital in South Korea, indicating that airborne precautions should be added to standard precautions to prevent nosocomial spread of the virus, researchers said.
SFTS was first isolated in 2009 in China and reported in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2011, but the virus has been circulating longer than that, having been retrospectively identified as the cause of previously unexplained illnesses in multiple studies...
SFTS virus may be transmitted via aerosols
Moon J, et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2018;doi:10.1017/ice.2018.330.
January 3, 2019
The virus that causes severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, or SFTS, may have been transmitted person-to-person via aerosols at a hospital in South Korea, indicating that airborne precautions should be added to standard precautions to prevent nosocomial spread of the virus, researchers said.
SFTS was first isolated in 2009 in China and reported in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2011, but the virus has been circulating longer than that, having been retrospectively identified as the cause of previously unexplained illnesses in multiple studies...