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Buttons840yesterday at 3:13 PM2 repliesview on HN

Related question. Have transmittable diseases spread in space? What examples do we know of?


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Klathmonyesterday at 3:35 PM

There have been a few instances, IIRC there was an Apollo mission that had a head cold spread among the whole crew.

But that's unlikely to be the case here because they've been up there isolated for over 6 months now

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perihelionsyesterday at 3:56 PM

This describes NASA's pre-flight quarantines since Apollo 14, and makes (very brief) references to in-flight diseases (and apparent transmission) prior to Apollo 14 ("upper respiratory infection"; "viral gastroenteritis"),

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ochmo-tb-006... ("Health Stabilization Program (HSP)")