Dust with a side of disease
Our Environment
MAY 21, 2021
2017 estimates show that particulate matter from desert dust is responsible for up to 600,000 deaths per year [5]. J Allergy Clin Immunol, 2017. Figure 1: Major global dust source areas. Large scale events are typically met with large scale consequences and dust is no exception to this. But what about all those hitch-hiking microbes?
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