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To: RealMuLan who wrote (30104)	3/25/2003 5:03:41 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Hang on there Yiwu. The virus doesn't travel in the air as in blown by the wind. It propagates in droplets sneezed or coughed by infected people. Those droplets infect people in close proximity. They don't waft away on the wind to infect anyone downwind. It's very much like the common cold type of infection. So close proximity is needed. The viruses don't live very well outside people, so they need to find a host soon after being coughed. Also, droplets do fall to the ground. I don't know about eye contact as a means of propagation. A droplet hitting the eye would slide down, into the drain to the back of the nose, down the throat and into the warm breeding grounds for pneumonia. Mqurice