Researchers point out that the risk of infection with influenza and other airplanes is low in airplanes

Many media come from infection in airplanesPandemicAccording to a new study, it is reported that influenza and other influenza are present in the passenger seat of the airplaneRespiratory infectionEven if there are infected passengers, it is shown that the risk of getting sick is low unless you sit back and forth, to the left or right of the infected person.

Behaviors, movements, and transmission of droplet-mediated respiratory diseases during transcontinental airline flights | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/03/13/1711611115

No, One Sick Passenger Will not Infect Everyone on the Plane
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Emory UniversityAccording to research by Vicki Stover and Hartzberg et al., There is a high risk that only those who are sitting within a radius of 1 m (passengers at the front, rear, left and right) of passengers infected with respiratory infections are subject to illness The possibility of infecting passengers in other seats is very low.

American Infectious Disease AssociationSpokesman Dr. Ameme Adariya said: "In the press of the media, there is a big report that infections in the airplane are the cause of the pandemic, but there was no confirmation as to whether it really infects the infection, , This study shows that only people sitting in the immediate vicinity are at risk of receiving respiratory infections and that they do not affect everyone in the cabinet.Therefore, with confidence I should be able to board an airplane. "

Until now, the risk of in-flight infections such as influenza viruses has hardly been known. Therefore, the research team said that he did 10 flights to investigate flights between 3.5 hours and 5 hours during the influenza epidemic period. Of the ten flights, it was reported that the seven flights were full and the remaining three flights also had few vacant seats.

Researchers recorded the frequency with which people moved away from their seats during flight, how many seconds they were away, how many seconds they were away, and how often they interacted with other people, and even before taking off, during flight, and after landing It seems that we got a sample from a place that may have been contaminated with virus, such as air in the room, "buckle in the seatbelt", "tray table" "door knob in the washroom" etc. According to the study, there was no reliable evidence of the presence of virus in the obtained sample.


Hertzberg's research team used the information gathered and assumed that influenza infected person is sitting on the seat along the aisle in the center of the aircraft and simulated how the virus propagates on the computer Did. The reason for placing infected people on the seat along the central aisle is that most people in the room pass the streets most likely to share the virus. Passengers leaving the seat in the auditorium were 80% of the people sitting in the aisle seat, 62% of the people sitting in the center seat, 43% of the people sitting in the window side seats, We are using this model even in the simulation.

As a result of the simulation based on this simulation model, the probability of being infected with a virus such as influenza was high was the passenger sitting within 1 m radius of the infected person (front and back, left and right), the infection rate was about 80 %was. The infection rate of passengers sitting on other seats is less than 3%, indicating that the probability changes extremely between adjacent seats and other seats.

"Even if the passengers in the next seat are suspected of infectious diseases such as influenza, we can not change the seat, but there are ways to avoid some infections, the first being from the infected person The second thing is to not touch the face or eyes, the third is to avoid touching the place where other passengers touch as much as possible, and if you touch it, we recommend using alcohol for disinfection. " It is.