Archive for April 8th, 2009

March 10, 2005 — Sitting next to a sneezing stranger during a cross-country flight may seem like the ideal recipe for transmitting infectious diseases, but a new report shows the perceived risk of infection during air travel may be greater than the actual one.
A review of studies on the in-flight transmission of infectious disease shows that simple measures, such as increasing ventilation within aircraft cabins, can drastically …