Air travel 'fuelled Sars spread' More than 800 people died in the global Sars outbreak Scientists investigating the rapid spread of the Sars virus earlier this year say they have evidence that air travel played a role. But experts found that the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome was been passed on only in cases where carriers exhibited the symptoms of the virus. The study, in The New England Journal of Medicine, said passengers who sat closest to carriers were most at risk. Sars killed over 800 people, infecting up to 8,000, in the worldwide outbreak. Proximity risk In the course of...