Dr. Julie Gerberding on a recent airplane trip was thrilled to get bumped up to first class. The thrill, however, quickly disappeared: As she did her victory walk to the front cabin, she noticed that the woman in the seat next to hers was hacking up a lung."She was on her cell phone, saying, 'I feel miserable. I just know I have swine flu,' " Gerberding remembered. "I thought to myself, 'Oh, great.' " Gerberding's first step was to point the air vent in the ceiling toward the sick woman and away from herself."That helped point the germs towards her and away from me," she said. She then pivoted her body -- she was sitting on the aisle seat -- away from Ms. Sneezy.
On airplanes, you're most likely to catch an illness from the people sitting in your row and in the row behind you, also whenever you're out in public, you can catch a germ from anyone within about six feet of you; that's how far some germs can travel, according to Dr. Rhonda Medows, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Community Health. Its a good thing that even doctors are still worried about the risks of swine flu, and its bad to know that you can still catch it closely and makes you realize about the risks of flying
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/05/where.germs.lurk/index.html
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