aerosol
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The biggest fine levied against the GEO Group was for failure to establish and maintain “effective written procedures to reduce employee risk of exposure to aerosol transmissible disease.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Stricter air quality regulations have reduced aerosol emissions since the 1980s.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Then there was an explosion—likely an aerosol can.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
A man in a hoodie and mask, who authorities said was Bradbury, walks into a kitchen with an aerosol can, allegedly a poison for bugs, and sprays everything in sight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
“My guess is that the needle injected you with a transmitter,” he says, “and the gas was an aerosol version of the liquid that alters the brain. But why...”
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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Humans are mainly infected by inhaling aerosols contaminated by the saliva, droppings or urine of animals or through direct contact with faeces, or via bites or scratches.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
Other proposed methods include squirting aerosols into the atmosphere or using microbubbles to make the ocean whiter.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026
The pollution could disrupt aerosols in the atmosphere and their ability to moderate our climate and temperature.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
Geoengineering experiments to reduce the Earth’s temperature with aerosols and modify ocean acidity are gathering pace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
“I think the pattern of spread that we saw, and the fact that it spread to new rooms, suggest that Ebola aerosols were being generated and were present in the building,” he said.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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