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Did you know that all viruses enjoy traveling by plane? Travel the world in a closed container, while his breathing and coughing infected vectors to spread viruses passengers sitting near or in recirculated air.
History has shown that smallpox, tuberculosis, SARS and many other pandemics can easily be distributed to commercial flights. Well, the weather in the first study, the number of events of H1N1 influenza that could happen in a flightResearchers at UCLA have discovered that the transatlantic air travel could lead to high incidence of H1N1.
They found that the transfer could be relatively high, especially during long flights, when the travel of infected persons in economy class, where the air more, with more passengers sitting very close clogged.
E 'comes with some interesting statistics - from 2 to 5 infections could be in a five-pass flight hours, 5 to 10 in a 11-hour flight and7-20 to 17 hours of flight.
It was the air traffic across the transport of people infected in central Mexico to other parts of the world are seriously affected the growth of H1N1 outbreaks in the spring. This demonstrates the importance now in the immediate vicinity could be another.
Scientists have developed a computer model to predict what may happen in a straight line. Used the quantitative analysis, and spent a number of parameters monitored. In this sense, thelong tradition Wells-Riley equation was used, which has developed over 30 years and is now the standard for estimating the size of outbreaks inside buildings and other indoor environments for the virus infection transmitted through the air.
The results of this research are very useful for understanding the global spread of H1N1 virus, and all other future-like pathogen that may occur in the future.
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