{"id":5412,"date":"2024-04-18T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5412"},"modified":"2024-04-18T16:21:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T20:21:54","slug":"who-experts-now-agree-diseases-like-covid-spread-through-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/who-experts-now-agree-diseases-like-covid-spread-through-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO experts now agree diseases like COVID spread through the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a disease to spread through the air, in a bid to avoid the confusion early in the COVID-19 pandemic that some scientists have said cost lives.<\/p>\n<p>The Geneva-based U.N. health agency released a technical document on the topic on Thursday. It said it was the first step toward working out how to better prevent this kind of transmission, both for existing diseases like measles and for future pandemic threats.<\/p>\n<p>The document concludes that the descriptor \u201cthrough the air\u201d can be used for infectious diseases where the main type of transmission involves the pathogen travelling through the air or being suspended in the air, in line with other terms such as \u201cwaterborne\u201d diseases, which are understood across disciplines and by the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a disease to spread through the air, in a bid to avoid the confusion early in the COVID-19 pandemic that some scientists have said cost lives.<\/p>\n<p>The Geneva-based U.N. health agency released a technical document on the topic on Thursday. It said it was the first step toward working out how to better prevent this kind of transmission, both for existing diseases like measles and for future pandemic threats.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/who-experts-now-agree-diseases-like-covid-spread-through-the-air\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHO experts now agree diseases like COVID spread through the air<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[416,18,97,14,283],"class_list":["post-5412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-airborne-transmission","tag-covid-19","tag-pandemic-response","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-world-health-organization","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5414,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions\/5414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}