Vomit Machine Models Cruise-Ship Virus Spread
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Scientific American
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🗓️ 22 August 2015
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| 0:35.0 | I'm Christopher Intagliata. |
| 0:36.4 | Got a minute? |
| 0:37.8 | There's no question that catching noravirus, |
| 0:40.1 | famous for turning some luxury cruises into horrors at sea is a terrible ordeal. |
| 0:45.5 | I always oftentimes say you generally don't die but you feel like you want to die. |
| 0:52.3 | Leanne Jekis, a food microbiologist at North Carolina State University. |
| 0:56.0 | Many people experience neurovirus as what's called projectile vomiting, which is literally like across the room. |
| 1:04.0 | Epidemiological studies have suggested that such spirited spewing can aerosolize |
| 1:09.6 | the virus putting others at risk. But Jekis says that mode of transmissions never been verified. |
| 1:15.6 | You know, in an ideal world, you would have somebody who had noirovirus vomit and then you probably would collect the you know aerosols that came out of |
| 1:26.6 | that vomiting event. Sadly or maybe thankfully our world is not ideal. So instead, we decided to build a simulated |
| 1:37.1 | vomiting device. Yeah, you heard right. A simulated vomiting device. The device mimics the upper GI |
| 1:45.6 | tract, an artificial stomach with a pressure pump and a ball valve sphincter |
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