Pathogens have been a constant threat to human health throughout our evolutionary history. Infectious diseases are estimated to have been responsible for more than half of all children deaths before age 15.
A Devastating Error. In answer to that question, Zimmer reminds us of a now-infamous tweet the World Health Organization sent out on March 28, 2020... "FACT: #COVID19 is NOT airborne." This misinformation perpetuated misunderstanding about transmission.
When I was first starting out as a new research fellow in the field of mineral metabolism, I read many seminal papers that were published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, which is the leading journal of the American Society of Investigation.