Infections That Use Touch To Transmit

Some diseases are spread almost exclusively by touch or through the skin or mucus membranes. These include Ebola, several parasitic diseases such as hookworm, strongyloides and scabies and some bacterial and fungal infections. Other diseases like COVID-19 and influenza are mainly transmitted via other routes but use touch as a secondary method of spread. This has implications for controlling these diseases, including the role of isolation and sanitation.
A lecture by Chris Whitty
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Always enjoy these lectures, since you learn something from them. Appreciate the effort it took to put them out. Thank you!

[@1234j]

Thank you. Really interesting.

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[@mallminot]

Thank you. Interesting, probably not the best choice for my mysophobia though 😟

[@praaht18]

Excellent.Thanks.

[@MrsPisaroni]

Thank you

[@soutteruk1]

Venereal disease ... which for some obscure reason leads me to Boris Johnson ...

[@lw1zfog]

needs jailing

[@Carroty_Peg]

Why is the tortoise who's directly responsible for the deaths of so many not to mention destroying education and businesses allowed to stand on stage and lecture? This world is clown world.