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New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n

High in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Spain, an international team of researchers set out four buckets to gather a shower of viruses falling from the sky.<\/p>\n

Scientists have surmised there is a stream of viruses circling the planet, above the planet\u2019s weather systems but below the level of airline travel. Very little is known about this realm, and that\u2019s why the number of deposited viruses stunned the team in Spain. Each day, they calculated, some 800 million viruses cascade onto every square meter of the planet.<\/p>\n

Most of the globe-trotting viruses are swept into the air by sea spray, and lesser numbers arrive in dust storms.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnimpeded by friction with the surface of the Earth, you can travel great distances, and so intercontinental travel is quite easy\u201d for viruses, said Curtis Suttle, a marine virologist at the University of British Columbia. \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t be unusual to find things swept up in Africa being deposited in North America.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Times High in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Spain, an international team of researchers set out four buckets to gather a shower of viruses falling from the sky. Scientists have surmised there is a stream of viruses circling the planet, above the planet\u2019s weather systems but below the level of airline travel. Very little is known about this realm, and that\u2019s why the number of deposited viruses stunned the team in Spain. 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