However, Singaporean authorities downplayed its threat, claiming it was not an airborne disease and could only be spread through the passage of moisture droplets, such as by coughing.
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Britain needs a national foot-and-mouth contingency plan now in case there is another outbreak of the airborne disease, the chairman of the public inquiry into the outbreak said Monday.
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Tuberculosis is an airborne disease : one person catches it by inhaling the bacteria that another has coughed up, and the infective particles can linger in the air for hours.
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However, the fundamental purpose of the project is to look at the prevalence and cause of TB, the airborne disease that has surged nationwide and has consistently been high in the Glades.
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While TB more commonly afflicts people in poorer, developing countries, Espinal warned that because it is an airborne disease, " TB can be in eight hours from Russia to New York ."
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"Normally, the first line of defense in airborne disease is the thin film of moisture that coats the nasal passages in which there are enzymes and layers of hairy ` cilia'that protect you.
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But because TB is highly infectious ( it is an airborne disease passed through a cough or a sneeze ), migrant workers tend to be more vulnerable because of their crowded living conditions.
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There have been no new cases of the airborne disease since Sept . 30 and the World Organization for Animal Health declared on Jan . 23 that Britain was free of the disease.
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If you're curious how this works, Stephen King's " The Stand " has a very easy to understand explanation of just how rapidly an airborne disease can spread, just assuming it spreads as fast as the common cold.
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He tells Martin and Kate that there has been an outbreak of an airborne disease, Argromoto Flu, codenamed R1N16, which started in South America and has spread over the entire world in the timespan of a few weeks.
