The plastic trays that passengers put their hand luggage in at security checkpoints have the highest numbers of viruses of anywhere in an airport, including toilets, new research suggests.
Such trays are covered in pathogens that can cause everything from the common cold and flu to pneumonia, bladder infections, SARS and even brain damage, according to the first study of its kind.
Plastic trays are thought to carry high numbers of viruses due to them being rapidly reused, as well as being touched by every single passenger that passes through an airport.
Such trays are also rarely disinfected, with their hard surfaces allowing viruses to survive for up to a day.
Air travel was blamed for the rapid spread of SARS from Hong Kong to North and South America, Europe and throughout Asia in 2003, as well as the flu epidemic that went from Mexico to the US in 2009.
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5 comments:
They need to disinfect the employees that handle the trays, too.
It is because they are touched by foreigners. Many that come from countries with no hygiene practices.
Air travel has gotten too affordable. It use to be nice. People dressed and behaved properly. Now every slob gets on the plane in their sweat pants and makes ridiculous demands of the staff as if they are in first class. At six four I politely asked one of these slobs to please put their reclined chair up a bit so I could get up and go to the restroom and she had a rabid deplorable melt down. Then changed her baby in the seat and put the smelly diaper on the floor. I bet the planes are filthier than those bins. They spend what ? Twenty minutes cleaning them between flights. Don't get me started about movie theaters.
Fly private and stop complaining
thats why the security wears plastic gloves
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