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Prof. Lydia Bourouiba speaks with Wired Roxanne Khamsi about her work investigating how pathogens spread. Khamsi explains that Bourouiba has found that “coughs and sneezes, which they call ‘violent expiratory events,’ force out a cloud of air that carries droplets of various sizes much further than they would go otherwise.”