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Hello this is the naked scientist the show that brings you the latest in science and technology and medicine I'm Adam Murphy and I'm Chris Smith. This week we are

meeting the neighbors, our planetary neighbors that is. We're taking a look at Mars and

Venus and the new missions that are heading their way. Plus in the news, COVID as an airborne disease, the mass elephant die-off in Botswana,

and why sampling sewage might be a sensitive way to search for coronavirus outbreaks.

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You might be forgiven for being slightly baffled this week with the news that airborne

transmission of coronavirus and the efforts by over 200 scientists to get the

World Health Organization to change its advice.

If you remember a few weeks ago, we reminded you of the old phrase, coughs and sneezes spread

diseases, the catchy phrase that was part of a British public health campaign

dating back to the 1940s and is still very relevant today especially

with COVID wafting around.

And with recent analyses from the Office for National Statistics suggesting that more than half of

cases of coronavirus infection might be asymptomatic, those 200 scientists say

we need to up our game because someone with no symptoms can nevertheless

still pass on coronavirus in small respiratory droplets when they breathe out.

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