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Mucus and other airway secretions surrounding influenza viruses when coughed or exhaled from infected individuals may protect the virus in the aerosol phase, even in high humidity environments.

Laboratory tests using H1N1 flu viruses aerosolised alongside secretions from a human lung cell culture at a range of humidities showed that both the airborne viruses and settled droplets remained equally infective at all humidities, for at least one hour.

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