{"id":7325,"date":"2020-06-04T13:20:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7325"},"modified":"2021-03-24T13:20:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T20:20:50","slug":"sars-cov-2-rna-detection-on-disposable-wooden-chopsticks-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/04\/sars-cov-2-rna-detection-on-disposable-wooden-chopsticks-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 RNA Detection on Disposable Wooden Chopsticks, Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected on disposable wooden chopsticks used by 5 consecutive asymptomatic and post-symptomatic patients.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This demonstrates\u00a0a\u00a0potential that<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0chopsticks or other dining utensils\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">could be a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">vehicle for transmission.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This has potential implications for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">communal meals, especially in communities with a custom\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0shar<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0dishes or utensils.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Lui et al. (June 3, 2020). SARS-CoV-2 RNA Detection on Disposable Wooden Chopsticks, Hong Kong. Emerging Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2609.202135\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2609.202135<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected on disposable wooden chopsticks used by 5 consecutive asymptomatic and post-symptomatic patients.\u00a0This demonstrates\u00a0a\u00a0potential that\u00a0chopsticks or other dining utensils\u00a0could be a\u00a0vehicle for transmission.\u00a0This has potential implications for\u00a0communal meals, especially in communities with a custom\u00a0of\u00a0sharing\u00a0dishes or utensils.\u00a0 Lui et al. (June 3, 2020). SARS-CoV-2 RNA Detection on Disposable Wooden Chopsticks, Hong Kong. Emerging&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/04\/sars-cov-2-rna-detection-on-disposable-wooden-chopsticks-hong-kong\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-7325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7326,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325\/revisions\/7326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7325"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}