Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kobziar, Leda N
• Thompson, 3rd, George R

Titel

Wildfire smoke, a potential infectious agent

Ist Teil von

• Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2020-12, Vol.370 (6523), p.1408-1410

Ort / Verlag

United States: The American Association for the Advancement of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Bacteria and fungi are transported in wildland fire smoke emissions Wildfires over the past 3 years have resulted in lengthy episodes of smoke inundation across major metropolitan areas in Australia, Brazil, and the United States. In 2020, air quality across the western United States reached and sustained extremely unhealthy to hazardous levels for successive weeks from August through November. Although the pulmonary and cardiovascular consequences of human exposure to smoke particulate matter are extensively researched, there remains little recognition or monitoring of a smoke component with potentially important health repercussions: microbes.