And consequently a large decrease in common airborne disease transmission.

Most of the Earth's population has perished from a virulent airborne disease.

Tuberculosis is an airborne disease, usually contracted through prolonged exposure.

Airborne diseases include any that are caused by pathogens and transmitted through the air.

Air pollution plays a significant role in airborne diseases which is linked to asthma.

Humans need clean air to avoid getting sick or catching an airborne disease that can potentially end their life.

As reported in this newspaper, flies - each one a potential airborne disease carrier - are a more dire threat.

These are most often caused by airborne diseases such as powdery mildew.

Exposure to a patient or animal with an airborne disease does not guarantee receiving the disease.

This is a way of preventing airborne disease, Mr. Sholley said.

Influenza, by contrast, can be a truly airborne disease, capable of hanging in the air in a room.

The confined cabin of an aircraft provides the ideal environment for transmitting airborne diseases such as the common cold.

Richard, it was the widespread damage that airborne disease could do to their plans that caused Headquarters to act so radically.

The airborne disease appears as a white powder on the underside of leaves, causing them to yellow and fall off, leaving a bare stem.

There was talk of the waters staying for months and the possibility of malaria and airborne diseases.

The plague doctor's costume was the clothing worn by a plague doctor to protect him from airborne diseases.

The airborne disease is mainly transmitted through close personal contact and is not nearly as contagious as the flu.

Airborne diseases can also affect non-humans.

The ventilator of Stephen Hales helped to reduce airborne diseases with the first air-conditioning.

"That's too close for airborne diseases," he said, recalling what he had learned in chemical warfare training during his years in the Navy.

Borders cannot confine the spread of this airborne disease; without aggressive and unified action, the crisis unfolding in South Africa may become our own.

Surgical masks are also used by the general public in heavily populated countries in East Asia to reduce the chance of spreading airborne diseases.

In 2012 former employee Jheri Stratton filed suit after catching the airborne disease tuberculosis from one of her managers.

Strictly speaking airborne diseases do not include conditions caused simply by air pollution such as dusts and poisons, though their study and prevention may be related.

Accordingly, CDC has recommended the use of N95 respirators, consistent with respiratory protection for airborne diseases, such as tuberculosis.