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Old 30th Aug 2006, 15:38
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Originally Posted by Globaliser
Is it a disinfectant? I thought that spraying was usually of an insecticide. However "clean" or "dirty" a country may be, it may well be a good idea to try to stop the long-distance importation of foreign insects.
India is far from the only country that does this. Australia is the one that I encounter most often.
Correct! Australia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, America, and even Mauritius used to (do not know now) and so on...

AlFakhem I am not aware of a disinfectant being sprayed in the cabin, it is usually a spray that kills mosquitoes and other insects....

There's a huge difference between disinfection and disinsection, I think you might have got a little confused there....

Here is a link for you with more information on the subject:

http://www.winterthurhealthforum.ch/...sinfection.pdf
(even whoever wrote this document got a little confused in the title it seems!)

and:

http://www.talkmedical.com/medical-d...1/Disinsection

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