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Prolonged contact, especially with a person’s skin lesions, is emerging as the top transmission route. Max Kozlov Monkeypox virus particles (red) infect a cell (blue), as shown in this coloured image from a transmission electron microscope.Credit: NIAID/NIH/SPL As global monkeypox cases continue to soar, researchers are learning more about how the disease is spreading. Early […]

One ‘superspreader’ with Omicron shed 1,000 times as much viral RNA as those with Alpha or Delta.   A device called the Gesundheit-II can collect viral RNA exhaled by people infected with SARS-CoV-2.Credit: Isabel Teresa Sierra Maldonado People infected with the highly transmissible Alpha, Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 spew out higher amounts of