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LisaL

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24. Close prolonged contact is not necessary for transmission.

Reply to Danascot (Reply #14)

Sun May 10, 2026, 11:49 PM

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The linked article describes how this virus spread at a birthday party. It also appears to be capable of transmission through inhalation. And as we all know from covid, viruses can mutate and become more infectious.
"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 "
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040

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