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by natly 1459 days ago
Thank goodness. It's not even trasmitted through the air.
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I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. Until a few weeks ago, both monkeypox and smallpox were listed as airborne diseases. It's been changed in public health doc's since monkeypox started to spread, but not because it has changed. They're just trying to downplay it.
"Spread can occur by small droplets and possibly the airborne route."[1]

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeypox

Same wikipedia:

"Limited person-to-person spread of infection has been reported in disease-endemic areas in Africa"

From the source of your quote:

"Human-to-human transmission occurs through close proximity or direct physical contact (e.g., face-to-face, skin-to-skin, mouth-to-mouth, mouth-to-skin contact including during sex) with skin or mucous membranes that may have recognized or unrecognized infectious lesions such as mucocutaneous ulcers, respiratory droplets (and possibly short-range aerosols), or contact with contaminated materials (e.g., linens, bedding, electronics, clothing)."[1]

"Intubation and extubation, and any procedures likely to spread oral secretions should be performed in an airborne infection isolation room."[2]

[1]: https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2...

[2]: https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/clinicians/infection-...

Nowhere does it says that it is airborne.

> respiratory droplets (and possibly short-range aerosols)

Maybe I'm missing something here, but is the above not the definition of airborne?

Yes, it is, but IIRC the term "airborne" can also refer to disease particles that can survive in the air unencapsulated (such as certain fungi), and can therefore travel quite some distance, and can remain hanging in the air for hours.

Aerosols are heavier than air, and therefore have a very limited range and duration in which the virus can remain "airborne" in common parlance.

(edit: expanded the definition to include more than just viruses as I couldn't find an example of a virus that can survive unencapsulated)

Cool, thank you for the clarfication!
Its pretty disappointing that your comment was dead and I had to vouch for it.
NeutronStar was banned in 2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17553252
So you're saying all their comments are automatically dead until someone vouches for them? Or just he was downvoted on reputation?
> automatically dead

a technique known as 'shadowbanning'

The scabs when dry crumble the particles shed can become airborne and are infectious.