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The World Health Organization says that SARS does not transmit with ease through the cabins of airplanes.
WHO's head of communicable diseases, Dr. David Heymann, attributes the low transmission rate to the filter systems on planes, saying that they filter the microbes from the air.
The WHO statistics show that only 16 of the more than 7,700 people infected with SARS worldwide got the disease while aboard an airplane. And all of those people were infected before airlines began screening passengers for symptoms.
Editor: Liao Ming
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