• Question: Do we breath in diseases from the air?

    Asked by hazel.com to Sudhin, Sergio, Katie, Frances, Diarmuid, Aoife on 12 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Frances Shiely

      Frances Shiely answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      Some diseases are airborne, yes. Some are passed on by tough and others are transmitted by bodily fluids.

    • Photo: Katie Fala

      Katie Fala answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      Air can contain particles containing bacteria and fungi (some researchers recently published a study of the air in Singapore and found over 725 different kinds of microbes in the air there! I’ll include a link below if you want to read more about it). But it is likely that the vast majority of these are not disease-causing microbes (pathogens) and would not present a problem to people who are generally healthy.

      https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191030100053.htm

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