What Is The Risk Of Flying or Taking The Subway And Catching The Swine Flu

What Is The Risk Of Flying or Taking The Subway And Catching The Swine Flu?This question is a Baby Boomer health concern as many have to travel for business and many retirees travel for pleasure.

Since the novel swine flu is showing it’s ugly face all over the world, just how interconnected we are and how commercial aircraft and public transportation can serve as vehicles of rapid disease spread…seems to be a major concern.

What Is The Risk Of Flying or Taking The Subway And Catching The Swine Flu?

Bottom line, the risk of getting an infection while you’re in an enclosed space such as an airplane, bus or subway, depends upon three factors:

The infectiousness of the contagious person spreading the illness
The degree of your exposure (how close you are to the contagious person and for how long)
The ventilation of the space or passenger cabin.

baby Boomers, really have no control over the infectiousness of our fellow passengers, and usually, we really don’t have much of a choice about your seating partners or those around us since germs can fly a good 3feet. So the exposure is pure chance, like the roll of dice.

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