On May fifteenth, just seventeen days after leaving New York, Captain Creesy wrote this in the Flying Cloud's log: "We have passed the Equator in two days less time than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Two other important findings came from this study: patients who stayed in an ICU seven days or more were more likely to become infected, and patients in developing countries were more at risk than those in ICUs in wealthier countries.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08