{
  "abstract": "The multinational outbreak of Andes hantavirus (ANDV) linked to cruise ship travel should prompt the World Health Organization (WHO) to change its default response to the risk of airborne transmission of the virus. Hantavirus is a pathogen with documented person-to-person transmission and high case fatality. Therefore, the starting point should not be to downplay the risk of airborne transmission until it is definitively proven. The starting point should be the immediate adoption of precautionary measures to reduce airborne transmission, such as respirator use by healthcare workers, cases, and close contacts; ventilation optimisation; avoidance of unfiltered air recirculation; and portable HEPA (high efficiency particulate air) filtration in all enclosed quarantine and transport settings.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Donald K Milton"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "University of Oxford, Oxford, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Trisha Greenhalgh"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, ON, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "David N Fisman"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand"
      ],
      "name": "Amanda Kvalsvig"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Lidia Morawska"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Jonathan M Samet"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Hantavirus outbreak should reset WHO’s default approach to airborne risk",
  "uid": "54ab31a2-0292-53a0-8c01-bebdc5537ece"
}