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A. Scott Laney
Researcher at National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Publications - 76
Citations - 3184
A. Scott Laney is an academic researcher from National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pneumoconiosis & Progressive massive fibrosis. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 69 publications receiving 2366 citations. Previous affiliations of A. Scott Laney include Emory University & Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Infections, Including COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections, Associated with Large Public Gatherings - Barnstable County, Massachusetts, July 2021.
Catherine M. Brown,Johanna Vostok,Hillary Johnson,Meagan Burns,Radhika Gharpure,Samira Sami,Rebecca T Sabo,Noemi B. Hall,Anne M. Foreman,Petra L Schubert,Glen R. Gallagher,Timelia Fink,Lawrence C. Madoff,Stacey Gabriel,Bronwyn MacInnis,Daniel J. Park,Katherine J. Siddle,Vaira Harik,Deirdre Arvidson,Taylor Brock-Fisher,Molly Dunn,Amanda Kearns,A. Scott Laney +22 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated 469 cases of COVID-19 associated with multiple summer events and large public gatherings in a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, were identified among Massachusetts residents; vaccination coverage among eligible Massachusetts residents was 69%.
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Molecular Evidence of Sexual Transmission of Ebola Virus
Suzanne Mate,Jeffrey R. Kugelman,Tolbert Nyenswah,Jason T. Ladner,Michael R. Wiley,Thierry Cordier-Lassalle,Athalia Christie,Gary P. Schroth,Stephen M. Gross,Gloria Davies-Wayne,Shivam A. Shinde,Ratnesh Murugan,Sonpon B. Sieh,Moses Badio,Lawrence Fakoli,Fahn Taweh,Emmie de Wit,Neeltje van Doremalen,Vincent J. Munster,James Pettitt,Karla Prieto,Ben W. Humrighouse,Ute Ströher,Joseph W. Diclaro,Lisa E. Hensley,Randal J. Schoepp,David Safronetz,Joseph N. Fair,Jens H. Kuhn,David J. Blackley,A. Scott Laney,Desmond E. Williams,Terrence Lo,Alex Gasasira,Stuart T. Nichol,Pierre Formenty,Francis Kateh,Kevin M. De Cock,Fatorma K. Bolay,Mariano Sanchez-Lockhart,Gustavo Palacios +40 more
TL;DR: The genomes assembled from blood samples from the patient and a semen sample from the survivor were consistent with direct transmission of Ebola virus disease and provided evidence of sexual transmission of EBOV and evidence of the persistence of infective E BOV in semen for 179 days or more after the onset of EVD.
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Possible sexual transmission of ebola virus — Liberia, 2015
Athalia Christie,Gloria Davies-Wayne,Thierry Cordier-Lasalle,David J. Blackley,A. Scott Laney,Desmond E. Williams,Shivam A. Shinde,Moses Badio,Terrence Lo,Suzanne Mate,Jason T. Ladner,Michael R. Wiley,Jeffrey R. Kugelman,Gustavo Palacios,Michael R. Holbrook,Krisztina Janosko,Emmie de Wit,Neeltje van Doremalen,Vincent J. Munster,James Pettitt,Randal J. Schoepp,Leen Verhenne,Iro Evlampidou,Karsor Kollie,Sonpon B. Sieh,Alex Gasasira,Fatorma K. Bolay,Francis Kateh,Tolbert Nyenswah,Kevin M. De Cock +29 more
TL;DR: CDC now recommends that contact with semen from male Ebola survivors be avoided until more information regarding the duration and infectiousness of viral shedding in body fluids is known, and if male survivors have sex, a condom should be used correctly and consistently every time.
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Continued Increase in Prevalence of Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis in the United States, 1970-2017.
TL;DR: The national prevalence of CWP among working coal miners is increasing, and this increase is most pronounced in central Appalachia, with an increase since 2000 remains evident.
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Respiratory Diseases Caused by Coal Mine Dust
A. Scott Laney,David N. Weissman +1 more
TL;DR: Coal mine dust remains a relevant occupational hazard and miners remain at risk for CMDLD, and prevention is critical.