Florence Nightingale advised that bringing fresh air into hospitals would help prevent the spread of disease. A recent study co-authored by SFI External Professor Jessica Green provides support for the idea.
Read the paper in Nature (January 26, 2012)
Read a blog post in Scientific American (January 29, 2012)
Green gave an August 2011 SFI Community Lecture in Santa Fe on the ecology of indoor environments.
Watch her presentation (59 minutes, August 17, 2011)
Read the article in the Belfast Telegraph (February 19, 2012)
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