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Página: 2/15 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 several countries where the disease is not usually found - including lhe United States - raising questions about how the vírus 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 vírus? Some infectious diseases can spread through airborne transmission via tiny respiratory droplets known as aerosols that can become suspended in the air. These droplets are produced when an individual exhales, sneezes, coughs, talks, or sings, for example. These droplets can contain live viruses or other pathogens that can potentially infect healthy people if they land in the eyes, nose or mouth. Airborne transmission does not require face-toface contact, and, in fact, an infected person does not even have to be in the sarne room as another individual to infect them because the droplets can linger in the air for some time. Several diseases spread through airborne transmission, including measles and chickenpox. Others, meanwhile, can spread via larger respiratory droplets that do not float in the air as easily and fali to the ground faster. SARS-CoV-2 spreads through exposure to respiratory fluids containing lhe infectious vírus, and, while it was not clear in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, we now know that this can include aerosols. (Adapted from https://www.newsweek.com/)