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   From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 07 Apr 2016, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban, in article   
   <8rvbgb9pq5c2q6adsnsh9imbjmfiqojj1k@4ax.com>, Thomas Prufer wrote:   
      
   >Moe Trin  wrote:   
      
   >>I'm sure the paper was peer-reviewed - but there are several problems.   
      
   >Yup... may have been reviewed by doctor-peers, not   
   >airplane-knowledgeable peers?   
      
     "The senior author wishes to thank numerous officials and personnel of   
     Air India, British Airways, British Caledonian Airways, the Central   
     Aviation Authority, the Meteorological Office and the Thames Water   
     Authority for their ready co-operation, provision of data, and helpful   
     discussion in the course of this work."   
      
   That doesn't look like a review to me either.  British Caledonian wasn't   
   even flying into Asia though they were in Africa and South America.   
      
   >However, there is a correlation (handwaving here, read it somewhere)   
   >between airports and disease, i.e. "airport dengue" from mosquitoes   
   >aboard planes from places where it is endemic.   
      
   1960s - every time I flew into Hawaii from S.E.A. (mainly Viet Nam), at   
   about 15 minutes before landing, one stewardess would race the length of   
   the 707-320 with a spray can of some insecticide blasting away, held low   
   to avoid gagging the passengers. There was a detectable aroma, but it was   
   not intolerable.  I understood this was done at the orders of the state   
   of Hawaii, rather than the feds.   
      
   >(Not necessarily passenger planes -- I'd expect a puddle of water in a   
   >pallet packing would work for a mosquito hitching a ride).   
      
   Not too likely - the puddles would most likely be jostled off while the   
   cargo was being loaded - and that's mainly larva anyway - a mosquito is   
   more likely to have landed on some surface and be hanging on for dear   
   life (or flying around wondering WTF - where is everyone going???).   
      
   >Ships and their cargo may be a barried for short-lived vectors, they die   
   >before reaching new shores....   
      
   At one time, there was consideration to requiring the cargo to be   
   fumigated, but the fumigant may cause more damage to the cargo than   
   damage to undesired insects.   
      
           Old guy   
      
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