Author: Anonymous
Source: free-articles
ARLINGTON, VA June 20, 2003 ??” Despite the additional expense to the airline industry, 85% of the 2,000 individuals polled in an Instant Poll sponsored by The Science Advisory Board recommend that the airlines take expensive precautionary measures to prevent the onboard spread of infectious diseases like SARS. Thirty-seven percent of respondents would like the airlines to replace the 50/50 mix of outside and recirculated air that flows throughout the cabin with air obtained completely from the outside of the aircraft. Another 35% of respondents believed that the aircraft surfaces, like the plastic armrests in the seats and the door handles to the lavatories, be sanitized between flights.
???I believe that even more than the threat of terrorism, the emergence of such zoonoses as SARS and now monkeypox jeopardize the viability of the airline industry,??