Coronavirus outbreak: What are super-spreaders and what do they do?
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Can a single COVID-19 patient infect others?
Although transmission rates in the current outbreak appear to be far lower, a variety of factors can lead to an individual infecting many.
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What is "super-spreading"?
The term "super-spreader" implies that a particular person may be inherently more able than others to pass on disease, but virus experts say there is no evidence to show that is the case.
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What WHO says?
The World Health Organization says it does not use "super-spreading" as a technical term. It adds, however, that "there can be incidents of transmission where a large number of people can become infected from a common source".
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Is a "super-spreader" a person or an event?
It's both. The spread of a virus like the new coronavirus depends on a range of environmental and epidemiological factors that ultimately lead to transmission in individual cases or clusters. These include the patient and what stage of disease they are in, their behaviour, their environment, and the amount of time spent in that environment.
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Have there been "super-spreaders" in the Covid-19 Outbreak?
The WHO described the South Korea outbreak as a "cluster" of cases and reiterated that it does not use super-spreading as a technical term. A WHO spokesman, asked about groups of infections in Singapore, France, Britain, Germany and elsewhere, said: "We don't have enough evidence to confirm a case involving a super-spreading event in the COVID-19 outbreak".