Tag: planes

Will you wear an N-95 respirator on your next flight? or in the airport?

By Hal Levin   Posted in News Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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Lots of attention to disease transmission and illness related to air travel lately. A new paper in the journal Indoor Air suggests that if passengers would wear N-95 respirators when they fly, they could significantly reduce their risk of infection. You can read the paper “Risk assessment of airborne infectious diseases in aircraft cabins” at …

Forget about snakes on a plane – how about viruses on a plane? #flu #influenza

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in News Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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Interesting new article in Time Magazine’s healthland: A New Study Shows That Sitting Close to a Sick Person on a Flight Can Make You Sick – – TIME Healthland. The article is based on a new paper in Emerging Infectious Diseases: Transmission of Influenza on International Flights, May 2009 which basically examines transmission dynamics of flu within …