Analyses the possibility of preventing disease being spread through a school ventilating system. States that the effectiveness of disinfecting recirculated air in blocking person to person transmission of airborne infection can be predicted to be great at the beginning of a potential outbreak and negligible during an established epidemic. Also states that air disinfection would supplement immunization in the control of respiratory infection and might be cost effective.
Indoor spread of respiratory infection by recirculation of air.
Year:
1979
Bibliographic info:
Bull europ Physiopath resp, Vol 15, 1979, pp 699-705, 16 refs.