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CP-QC-IM /2022 Página: 2/13 Read lhe text below and answer queslions 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 lhe world in severa! countries where lhe disease is not usually found - including the United States - raising queslions about how lhe vírus is spreading. But can monkeypox, a rare disease lha! is usually restricted to paris of Central and West Africa, spread via airborne transmission like lhe SARS-CoV-2 vírus? Some infeclious 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, or sings, for example. These droplets can contain live viruses or other pathogens that can potenlially infect healthy people if they ·Iànd in the eyes, nose or mouth. Airborne transmission does not require face-toface contact, and, in fac!, an infected person does no! even have to be in the sarne roem as another individual to infect them because lhe droplets can linger in lhe air for some lime. Severa! diseases spread through airborne transmission, including measles and chickenpox. Others, meanwhile, can spread via larger respiratory droplets that do not ficai in the air as easily and fali to lhe gri:>und faster. SARS-CoV-2 spreads through · expi:>sure to respiratory fluids containing the infectious vírus, and, while it was not clear in lhe early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, we now know that this can include aerosols. (Adapted from https://www.newsweek.com/)