The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends health care workers treating Ebola patients adhere to the agency's Recommended Standard, Contact and Droplet Precautions, he explained.

This patient was transferred to us from another Northern California hospital. Since the patient arrived with a suspected viral infection, our care teams have been taking the proper infection ...

With droplet transmission, it's thought that virus-filled particles can be ejected from the mouth or the nose when a person speaks, coughs or sneezes. The droplets can be flung through the air ...

Droplet precautions involve wearing a surgical mask so infectious droplets don’t get in the mouth and nose.

“In health care facilities, we make sure health care workers use standard droplet precautions with the exception … that they’re doing an aerosol-generating procedure,” Kerkhove continued.

Droplet precautions include the use of surgical masks, gowns, gloves and eye guards. Mounting evidence shows the coronavirus spreads through droplets, such as when someone coughs and sneezes.

The CDC recommends placing suspected or confirmed Ebola patients in single-patient rooms and starting contact and droplet precautions. Those include donning: a fluid-impermeable gown, gloves, ...

Furthermore, studies evaluating the use of N95 masks for influenza prevention have not shown superiority over typical droplet precautions at preventing disease in healthcare workers.

Coronavirus can be airborne and these 239 scientists want people to know about aerosol and droplet transmission of Covid-19.

Essential Precautions for Health Care, General Industry CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee divides ATDs into those two categories, diseases requiring Airborne ...