{"606848":{"#nid":"606848","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Airplane germs are \u0027no worse\u0027 than those found in offices and homes, researchers say","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGermaphobes who are wary of airplanes may find some relief in knowing that aircraft are no \u0026#39;dirtier\u0026#39; than everyday spaces, according to a new \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00248-018-1191-3\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;There were reasons to believe that the communities of bacteria in an aircraft cabin might be different from those in other parts of the built environment, so it surprised me that what we found was very similar to what other researchers have found in homes and offices,\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~weiss\/\u0022\u003EHoward Weiss\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s School of Mathematics and the study\u0026#39;s corresponding author.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2018-06-08 15:51:48","changed_gmt":"2018-06-08 15:53:02","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"leadership search","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5818375\/Airplane-germs-like-founds-homes-offices-researchers-find.html","dateline":{"date":"2018-06-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-06-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"589961":{"id":"589961","type":"image","title":"Howie Weiss","body":null,"created":"1491572604","gmt_created":"2017-04-07 13:43:24","changed":"1491572604","gmt_changed":"2017-04-07 13:43:24","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224755","name":"weiss-spotlight.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/weiss-spotlight.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/weiss-spotlight.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":26722,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/weiss-spotlight.jpg?itok=nRRI7OPZ"}}},"media_ids":["589961"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"64981","name":"Howie Weiss"},{"id":"168854","name":"School of Mathematics"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}