Questão de Língua Inglesa

CP-QC-CA-FN/2022 Página: 2/12 Read lhe text below and answer questions 3 and 4. COVI D 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 the disease is not usualiy found - including lhe United States - raising questions about how the virus is spreading. But can monkeypox, a rare disease that is usualiy restricted to paris of Central and West Africa, spread via airborne transmission like lhe 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 potentialiy 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 roem as another individual to infect !hem because lhe droplets can linger in lhe air for some time. Severa! diseases spread through airborne transmission, including measles and chickenpox. Others, meanwhile, can spread via larger respiratory droplets that do no! float in lhe air as easily and fali to lhe ground faster. SARS-CoV-2 spreads through exposure to respiratory fluids containing lhe infectious vírus, and, while it was not clear in lhe early stages of lhe COVID-19 pandemic, we now know that this can include aerosols. (Adapted from https://www.newsweek.com/)