Staying Healthy on an Airplane May Have to Do With Where You Sit
A germs-on-a-plane study tracked how infectious diseases are spread on passenger flights.
By Shari Roan
March 20, 2018
Most air travelers have worried about catching a cold or the flu from fellow passengers. According to a new study, the odds of that happening may be lower than you think — but have something to do with where you sit on the plane.
Research published on March 19 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that passengers seated within one row and within two seats laterally of someone with a common infectious respiratory disease had an 80 percent or greater chance of becoming infected. For everyone else on the plane, however, the risk of infection was less than 3 percent.
https://www.everydayhealth.com/cold-flu/staying-healthy-on-airplane-may-have-with-where-you-sit/
