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How germs travel on planes -- and how we can stop them

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    So can I get a show of hands
    how many of you in this room
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    have been on a plane
    in this past year?
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    That's pretty good.
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    Well, it turns out that
    you share that experience
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    with more than 3 billion people
    every year.
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    And when we put so many
    people in these metal tubes
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    that fly all over the world,
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    sometimes, things like this
    can happen
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    and you get a disease epidemic.
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    I first actually got into this topic
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    when I heard about
    the Ebola outbreak last year.
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    And it turns out that although Ebola
    spreads through
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    these more
Title:
How germs travel on planes -- and how we can stop them
Speaker:
Raymond Wang
Description:

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Video Language:
English
Team:
closed TED
Project:
TEDTalks
Duration:
06:28

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