India, Jan. 28 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
A new study has identified airborne pathogens carried along with elevated desert dust plume from Western India to the top of the Eastern Himalayas that are associated with respiratory and skin diseases.
The Himalayan hill-top atmosphere is widely considered beneficial for human health vulnerability in these regions have been found to be intensified by cold climatic conditions & hypoxia. There are limited evidences connecting airborne microbial exposure to respiratory disease outcomes in high-altitude Himalayan populations and the microbiological dimension of transboundary dust transport remains poorly understood. This gap in knowledge prompted researchers to take up the prese...