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Slow motion sneezing

23 January 2013 by Vincent Racaniello

A bit unsettling, but this is what happens when a sneeze is not contained:

If you have a respiratory viral infection, each drop expelled can contain tens of thousands of infectious virions.

Made by South Australian Health.

Filed Under: Information Tagged With: influenza, sneeze, transmission, video, viral, virology, virus

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  1. gy says

    26 January 2013 at 4:28 am

    great video, funny but also surprising

  2. jkb2127 says

    26 January 2013 at 10:28 pm

    Check out vomiting Larry: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/01/04/168608466/as-norovirus-rages-a-robot-named-vomiting-larry-gets-a-closeup

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