How to avoid catching a virus on a plane

19-Mar-2018

Key points from article :

Study provides blueprint for how a virus could move around a plane.

Human movement spreads more germs through cabin than the plane’s recirculated air.

Window seats were the most isolated from contact with other passengers.

Low the risk of infection unless you’re sitting very close to a sick individual.

In 1977 38 of 54 passengers and crew contracted an influenzalike illness.

The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.