Editing Common cold (section)

===Transmission===
The common cold virus is typically transmitted via airborne droplets, direct contact with infected nasal secretions, or [[fomites]] (contaminated objects).<ref name=CE11/><ref name=Cold197>{{cite book |vauthors=Eccles R, Weber O |title=Common cold |year=2009 |publisher=Birkhäuser |location=Basel |isbn=978-3-7643-9894-1 |page=197 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rRIdiGE42IEC&pg=PA197 |edition=Online-Ausg. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160502212944/https://books.google.com/books?id=rRIdiGE42IEC&pg=PA197 |archive-date=2 May 2016}}</ref>  Which of these routes is of primary importance has not been determined.<ref name=E211>Eccles pp. 211, 215</ref> As with all respiratory pathogens once presumed to transmit via respiratory droplets, it is highly likely to be carried by the aerosols generated during routine breathing, talking, and singing.<ref name="prather_jimenez_marr_1">{{cite journal|last1=Wang|first1=Chia C.|last2=Prather|first2=Kimberly A| last3=Sznitman|first3=Josué|last4=Jimenez|first4=Jose L|last5=Lakdawala|first5=Seema S.|last6=Tufekci|first6=Zeynep|last7=Marr|first7=Linsey C.|date=27 Aug 2021|title=Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses|journal=Science|volume=373|issue=6558 |doi=10.1126/science.abd9149|pmid=34446582 |pmc=8721651 }}</ref>  The viruses may survive for prolonged periods in the environment (over 18 hours for rhinoviruses) and can be picked up by people's hands and subsequently carried to their eyes or noses where infection occurs.<ref name=Cold197/> Transmission from animals is considered highly unlikely; an outbreak documented at a British scientific base on [[Adelaide Island]] after seventeen weeks of isolation was thought to have been caused by transmission from a contaminated object or an asymptomatic human carrier, rather than from the [[Siberian Husky|husky dogs]] which were also present at the base.<ref name=Allen1973>{{cite journal |vauthors=Allen TR, Bradburne AF, Stott EJ, Goodwin CS, Tyrrell DA |title=An outbreak of common colds at an Antarctic base after seventeen weeks of complete isolation |journal=The Journal of Hygiene |volume=71 |issue=4 |pages=657–67 |date=December 1973 |pmid=4520509 |pmc=2130424 |doi=10.1017/s0022172400022920 |author-link5=David Tyrrell (physician)}}</ref>

Transmission is common in daycare and schools due to the proximity of many children with little immunity and poor hygiene.<ref name=Text2007/> These infections are then brought home to other members of the family.<ref name=Text2007>{{cite book |vauthors=Papadopoulos NG, Xatzipsaltis M, Johnston SL |veditors=Zuckerman AJ |display-editors=etal |title=Principles and Practice of Clinical Virology |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4il2mF7JG1sC&pg=PR3 |year=2009 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0-470-74139-9 |page=496 |chapter=Rhinoviruses |edition=6th |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603221154/https://books.google.com/books?id=OgbcUWpUCXsC&pg=PA496 |archive-date=3 June 2016}}</ref> There is no evidence that recirculated air during commercial flight is a method of transmission.<ref name=Cold197/> People sitting close to each other appear to be at greater risk of infection.<ref name=E211/>