Would an infected person walking through a busy office building/public place/airport be considered close contact? Would we quarantine everyone on the whole floor/in the whole area?
The risk of transmission is a function of duration, intensity, frequency of contact, and how efficient the virus is spread. All have to be considered and for the H5N1 agent, this is unknown since there is no efficient human to human spread. There are scenarios where the virus in not highly infectious or dangerous and there are those where it might be. While walking through a busy office is not intense, frequent or of high duration, we would evaluate this question based on what we know about how efficient the virus appears to be spreading and how long it would remain alive on surfaces such as doorknobs, desks, and computers.
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