Flu viruses travel through the air in droplets when someone with the infection coughs, sneezes or talks.

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But unfortunately the words get transformed as they travel through the air.

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He became boss of Boeing's commercial-aircraft division, which he ran for eight years and steered through the violent shocks inflicted on the industry by the slumps in air travel after the terrorist attacks on America in September 2001, the SARS scare and the Iraq war.

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Public health crises of the past decade, like SARS in 2003 or the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009, have highlighted how easy it is for diseases to spread around the world, including through air travel.

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The Obama administration said the so-called sequester would hit air travel, particularly hard, through cuts in spending on air traffic control and security.

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But the key point: the exaflood of information flying through cyberspace did not cut or even flatten air travel.

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