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Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have identified mechanisms that allow airborne tuberculosis bacteria to survive the drying process and acquire mutations associated with antibiotic resistance. The study notes that dried bacterial particles are highly contagious, ranking second only to measles in transmissibility. These findings imply that the period when bacteria are airborne and drying may be an active phase for pathogen evolution, not merely passive transmission.

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