2026-05-08 12:54 UTC
And then there’s the 2018/19 outbreak in Chubut Province. The researchers who investigated that outbreak write that it was touched off when the index case attended a birthday party for 90 minutes while feeling sick. Five guests at that party later fell sick themselves.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040
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@kakape@mas.to 2026-05-08 12:55
Those guests then touched off further rounds of human-to-human transmission. “On the basis of evidence from five reconstructed person-to-person transmission events, the route of infection in secondary cases was possibly through inhalation of droplets or aerosolized virions.”