What does it mean to describe an infection as having airbornetransmission, and what are the clinical implications? Thereis a fitting symmetry between the report by Yu et al. aboutairborne transmission of the severe acute respiratory syndrome(SARS) in this issue of the Journal (pages 1731–1739)and John Snow's investigation of a cholera epidemic 150 yearsago. Snow's independent investigation tested the hypothesisthat cholera was waterborne. The official investigation by theGeneral Board of Health in England, however, concluded thattransmission in the epidemic was airborne, caused by nocturnalvapors emanating from the Thames River — a . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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From the Center for Aerobiological Sciences, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Md. (C.J.R.); and the Department of Environmental Health, Epidemiology and Risk Program, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston (D.K.M.).
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