CEBU CITY, Philippines – As Cebu monitors mpox (formerly monkeypox) cases and the public takes extra health precautions, a familiar sight has resurfaced: masks flying off pharmacy shelves. The ...

Bacterial meningitis droplet precautions include wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) and isolating those with the disease. They can help reduce the spread of this disease from person to ...

In Toronto, healthcare workers took strict precautions including, in some cases, wearing goggles, masks, gloves and two gowns. Even so, some still caught SARS from patients.

In short, he said, COVID-19 will transmit "really rapidly" without a mask and without other mitigating precautions. But masks and distancing and hand washing are more effective for flu.

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. (CNN) - Holiday travel is reaching pre-pandemic levels at the same time infections are peaking from the omicron variant. The TSA is anticipating 20 million people will fly ...

Influenza is classified as requiring "standard" and droplet precautions in the 2007 guidelines, which are under revision now. This would mean a surgical mask would be adequate.

Several health care providers in the region say they are running low, or will run low, on protective medical supplies, such as masks, respirators and gowns, that keep workers safe.

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SAN FRANCISCO — There’s a certain kind of N95 mask that’s actually bad to wear for public health during the COVID-19 pandemic. San Francisco’s health officer warns that N95 masks with a ...

The mask reduces the wearer’s exposure to airborne particles, ... “In health care facilities, we make sure health care workers use standard droplet precautions with the exception ...

Masks are among the most effective of such measures, she said, because much of virus transmission is droplet based, expelled from one person’s mouth or nose and into another’s.