# You can catch SARS on the plane

- Author: Joichi Ito
- Date: 2003-04-13T14:35:13Z


New York TimesGlobetrotting Traveler Infected With SARS
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Airlines have been saying that the filters aboard modern planes do a good job of removing viruses from the air. But according to the health department here, at least 13 people have fallen sick with SARS after they shared a flight from Hong Kong to Beijing last month with an elderly man who had become infected with the disease while visiting his brother in a hospital here.





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