How is the virus most easily transmitted among kids?
We don’t have perfect data there, but if we use seasonal influenza as a model to the current pandemic H1N1 influenza, we would expect that both large droplet and small droplet transmission to occur. What large droplets transmissions indicate is that when you sneeze, those large droplets are going to fall in a space of about three to six feet, and when they fall on hard surfaces, those surfaces will be contaminated with the virus for an extended period of time. If you touch those contaminated surfaces with your hands and touch your eyes, or your nose, or your mouth, you have a good likelihood of transmitting the virus to yourself. Likewise if you’re in that environment of about three to six feet when that individual coughs and that individual does not use good hygiene etiquette, then you have a good chance of coming down in contact with the infectious particles. Now, we also know that for influenza, it can be transmitted efficiently by small particle, and that means that the cough can g
