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Archive Home > 2009 > February > 10 > Watch the humidity; flu likes it dry

Watch the humidity; flu likes it dry

By Randolph E. Schmid / The Bulletin
February 10, 2009

WASHINGTON — Grandma may have been right about keeping a teakettle warming on the stove in winter to moisten the air.

Studies of seasonal influenza have long found indications that flu spreads better in dry air.

Now, new research being published today in the Proceedings of the National....

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