Study: Cleaning airport surfaces every 2 hours cuts norovirus infections by 83%

[Flyerwin]

This is from an article in the PLOS Computational Biology journal.

Exec summary:

Cleaning airport surfaces every 2 hours cuts norovirus infections by 83%. People make 26,000 touches in an airport a day. Airport restaurants had highest risk, with 4.6 out of 51,494 travellers being infected. Handwashing every 2 hours reduced risk by only 2%, and mask-wearing 50% of time by 48%.

Public surface disinfection every 2 hours can reduce the infection risk of norovirus in airports up to 83%


An easier to read secondary source: Cleaning airport surfaces every 2 hours cuts norovirus infections by 83%

 

[Flyerwin]

Thanks mod for cleaning up my post!

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I dunno about those numbers! Sydney airport had 3.5 million passengers pass through in December. Using those figures of 4.6 people out of every 51,000, that means 278 people a month are getting norovirus? And that’s just sydney!

Even cutting that by 83%, worldwide that would be unacceptable numbers.

If this is really a ‘thing’… it would have been all over the news?