In the midst of flu season are waiting for their victims in all public areas. Particularly high risk of infection in a confined space, for example in transport. And on Board the risk of catching the virus even more real, and not just normal flu, but some are more dangerous or rare the disease is, after all, your companions can be people from different regions and even countries.
How can that be, if you have a flight, and endanger their health does not want? Choose a window seat and a smaller walk through the cabin, it is recommended by scientists.
A group of scientists under the leadership of Vicki Stover Hertzberg, Professor of biostatistics of Emory University, found that the place from the Windows — one of the best, and not only because of the opening of them.
In the experiment, the results of which are published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists made 10 transatlantic flights and was used for the analysis of air from different parts of the aircraft, and in addition, we studied the behavior and interaction of passengers and traced the movement of air currents in the cabin. The obtained data is presented in a mathematical model.
It turned out that the infection carrier is usually one of 150 passengers. And to get the most at risk 11 nearest neighbours. Less total virus threatens those who took their places at the Windows, due to peculiarities of circulation of air streams that potentially contain viruses and bacteria.
For other passengers, the danger is not so great as one might think: after flying the virus picks up a maximum of two companions of a sick passenger.
