Tag: airborne pathogens

Research on mitigating risk from airborne pathogens in cars… but is there a risk?

By David Coil   Posted in Transportation
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Came across this study today “Airborne Pathogens inside Automobiles for Domestic Use: Assessing In-Car Air Decontamination Devices Using Staphylococcus aureus as the Challenge Bacterium”.   What struck me from the start was the Abstract which begins: Family cars represent ∼74% of the yearly global output of motorized vehicles. With a life expectancy of ∼8 decades in …

MoBE Postdoctoral Fellowship: Indoor aerosol fate, transport, and control: implications for disease transmission

By Stephanie Kunkel   Posted in Research from microBEnet
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Microbial pathogens, including viral, bacterial, and fungal species, are transmitted via both airborne and surface contact routes in indoor environments. Breathing, sneezing, and coughing are important sources of many of these species, with the microbes being aerosolized and dispersed in microscopic liquid droplets that may settle to nearby surfaces or evaporate into smaller droplet nuclei …