Questão de Língua Inglesa

CP-QC-CA-FN/2022 Página: 2/11 Read the text below and answer questions 3 and 4. COVID Airborne Transmission v. Monkeypox: Key Differences between viruses By Aristos Georgiou More than 1,000 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed around the world in severa! countries where lhe disease is not usually found - including lhe United States - raising questions about how the virus is spreading. But can monkeypox, a rare disease that is usually restricted to paris of Central and West Africa, spread via airborne transmission like the SARS-CoV-2 virus? Some infectious diseases can spread through airborne transmission via tiny respiratory droplets known as aerosols that can become suspended in lhe air. These droplets are produced when an individual exhales, sneezes, coughs, talks, ar sings, for example. These droplets can contain live viruses ar other pathogens that can potentially infect healthy people if they land in lhe eyes, nose ar mouth. Airborne transmission does no! require face-toface contact, and, in fac!, an infected person does not even have to be in the sarne roam as another individual to infect them because the droplets can linger in the air for some time. Severa! diseases spread through airborne transmission, including measles and chickenpox. Others, meanwhile, can spread, via larger respiratory droplets lha! do not float in lhe air as easily and fali to the ground faster. SARS-CoV-2, spreads through ,,expbsure to respiratory fluids containirig lhe infectious virus, and, while it was not cleàr iri ihe éârly stages of the CÓVID"19 pandemic, we now kri,ow that this can include :aerosols. (Adapted from https://www.neiNsweek.com/)