ArticleGeoscience frontiers2022
Aerosol transmission of human pathogens: From miasmata to modern viral pandemics and their preservation potential in the Anthropocene record.
Article in Geoscience frontiers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Epidemiological characteristics and public health responses against measles in the Ottoman empire and the early Turkish Republic.BMC public health · 2026Article
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- Introduction to the special issue on "COVID-19".Geoscience frontiers · 2022Article
- Detection of Airborne Nanoparticles through Enhanced Light Scattering Images.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Ongoing uncertainty over the relative importance of aerosol transmission of COVID-19 is in part rooted in the history of medical science and our understanding of how epidemic diseases can spread through human populations. Ancient Greek medical theory held that such illnesses are transmitted by airborne pathogenic emanations containing particulate matter ("miasmata
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