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Exhaled aerosols• Huynh et al used a mask to collect exhaledaerosols from 20 adult volunteers with URI• They asked them to do the following:– Quietly breathe for 20 minutes– Read aloud for 20 minutes– 20 loud coughs over 3-5 min– They changed masks after each activity and usedPCR to document whether virus RNA was present onthe maskHuynh et al, Clin Inf Dis 2008; 46:93–5