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The Speed and Vectors of TransmissionThe rapidity with which the Swine Flu is traveling is pretty breathtaking. I'm not a doomsayer, by any means, but still, it's astonishing that in less than two months the virus has spread from Mexico to Canada and the United States to places as far away as New Zealand and Spain. I think the EU is wise to put out the warning it has. Prudence in cases like these is a virtue. One of the things I loathe most about air travel is being confined in the dry, stale air of an aluminum tube for hours on end. Talk about bacteria cafeteria? Or a virus colony? And then to be in a city like Istanbul where I am constantly bumping into people, holding on the hand straps in the subway that have had who knows whose hands on them? It's not something we normally think about, but big cities and mass transit are easy vectors of transmission too. Sometimes the world can be a very sobering place. Sean Paul Kelley April 27, 2009 - 11:05am
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