Ignoring #airborne kills.
"possibility". sure. If I pull the following report they will have had no clue how that nurse caught it and it gets reported as "mucocutaneous".
"Two of the cases were nurses who cared for a patient with Bolivian hemorrhagic fever during the last 3 days of disease and life, in which the mode of infection was probably mucocutaneous, though there was also the possibility of infective aerosol involvement. ...
The clinical presentation in one of these nurses was of classical Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, with 10 days of incubation followed by jaundice, necrotizing bronchopneumonia, hemorrhages, and death on the 12th day of illness."
To compare modes and sources of infection and clinical and biosafety aspects of accidental viral infections in hospital workers and research laboratory staff reported in scientific articles.PubMed, Google Scholar, ISI Web of Knowledge, Scirus, and Scielo ...
Dengue without a mosquito you say?
We report a case of dengue fever in a Boston-area health care worker with no recent history of travel but with mucocutaneous exposure to infected blood from a febrile traveler who had recently returned from Peru. Serologic tests confirmed acute dengue virus infection in both the traveler and the hea …
CHR virus in winter when ticks are inactive you say?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7435795/
We don't know half of what some say we do. And for sure 90 percent have no imagination and can't imagine anything beyond what they are going to have for breakfast.
(I'm not saying the above are expelled from respiratory tract. I don't have a guess until look at host factors and see if virus can replicate there. Just noting all the exceptions to general beliefs...)
This paper describes the clinical, epidemiological, and laboratory investigations undertaken to isolate and identify the etiological agent of a nosocomial cluster of hemorrhagic fever cases due to Crimean hemorrhagic fever (CHR)-Congo virus. Since this virus is usually transmitted by ticks it was su …
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