"The presence of virus in the human nasopharynx, which has been repeatedly demonstrated, provides an obvious source of air contamination by patients and carriers; and direct contact has been traced during epidemics in a considerable fraction of cases..."
"..there are grounds for assuming that the virus lurks (LURKS) in the upper respiratory passages of man, and is given off in the air by acts of respiration."
1937.
"Epidemic acute Poliomyelitis and Encephalitis, both Air-Borne Infections"
"NORN and MOLLER (Ugeskrift for Lzger, 26-3374. Actu pcediutrica. Vol. XIX. 394 W. SOHIER BRYANT 33: 841, 1935) say the virus may enter via the lungs as shown by commencing with cough, bronchitis, or even pneumonia, and in some cases via the tonsils, commencing with tonsillitis."
"The prodromal symptoms are also identical in our two diseases. They both commence with local acute inflammatory symptoms in the upper air-tract, nose, throat and tonsils."
1940. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
"The balance of evidence suggests that poliomyelitis is an air-borne disease. However, recovery of the virus from feces, from water, and sewage must be taken seriously."
1944. "POLIOMYELITIS IN THE CYNOMOLGUS MONKEY : III. INFECTION BY INHALATION OF DROPLET NUCLEI AND THE NASOPHARYNGEAL PORTAL OF ENTRY"
"It is suggested that inhalation of virus deserves more serious attention as a mode of human infection than it has hitherto received, since air
and dust may be contaminated from fecal as well as from nasopharyngeal sources."
As of today, according to the CDC - polio is not airborne. We'll see about that.
The WHO:
"The virus is transmitted by person-to-person spread mainly through the faecal-oral route or, ...., by a common vehicle (for example, contaminated water or food)"
Evidently, if your Dr. is from the WHO? You are protected from the CDC droplets. who.int/news-room/fact…
More to come as we build the preponderance of evidence awaiting us buried in the old tomes.
Jumping up to 1972 for no other reason than I'd like to see some high-level citations - that I can then dive back down into in the earlier years.
If I was in NY, I would sure be masking up for CoVid, Monkeypox, and now polio.
Although the vaccine effectiveness is at 99%, if you follow me, there's a chance you might be immunocompromised as I tend to have a bunch of such followers.
NY state has suffered a decrease in vaccinations thanks to antivaxxers.
"The human DNA virome. Prevalences (%) of viral DNAs in the body (≥1 tissue positive for a virus) and in different organs as determined by qPCR or NGS"
71 guinea pigs gave their lives between 1956 and 1958 in the eponymous study by Riley et al, getting TB air piped in from some TB patients, to prove TB is airborne.
Influenza is kind of airborne per most doctors. But kind of not.
So....
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We need some volunteers.
Will horses be those volunteers that finally lay it all out?
Yes - but none of them lost their lives.
Air samplers were deployed and tracked horses inoculated with Equine influenza virus (EIV).
From the very first day post inoculation (dpi), until the
12th day, EIV was found in the air, in this new study.
With no horses, or guinea pigs, hurt in the process.
But sure, influenza's not airborne - if you are the USDA, right, @nirav_maine?
@ThailandMedicaX, retweeted by some because of their controversial takes (ahem, their lies?), is saying that FAR-UVC is dangerous because somehow the light will get into the lungs.
Lol.
They are just apparent supplement grifters.
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I noticed they were using @NukitToBeSure's excellent torches as their example picture.
Strange to be so selective of an example picture for someone purporting to be an independent news source on health.
Hmm. I helped defend Nukit against charges of
racism by a very nasty couple who it turned out just do not like UVC, personally. I wonder....
Yep, ThailandMedicalX has blocked me.
But, it's weird for a purported news source to block someone like me @gorskon
@doritmi @19joho.
You've heard of "The Three Problem." - great book, and excellent Netflix series.
If you want to be avoid catching Covid, you probably have "The Empty Room" situation in the back of your mind.
How long after a room had people in it, can you safely demask?
Thread.
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Measles was thought to be airborne after a child caught measles an hour after the infected child left the same office.
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Interestingly, you can see the reluctance in blue below to call measles airborne. Much like the WHO with @mvankerkhove researchgate.net/publication/19…
which spent millions to rebrand SARS2 as "through the air" rather than airborne.
It is an inconvenient truth that then leads us to the study showing an #EmptyRoom SARS2 infection at 1 hour and 43 minutes, and FOUR HOURS and FORTY-FIVE MINUTES.