Mile High Club of Bacteria / myLot

South Africa

January 11, 2016 12:24am CST

I was responding to a post "do-airplanes-and-colds-just-always-go-together" by @JamesHxstatic and decided to give you my thoughts in a post. My friends mom has just returned from Belgium after a wonderful stay of 3 months with her daughter and now is suffering from a bad dose of Bronchitis which I am sure she caught on the plane. My hubby also got ill on our return trip from Europe and we were not changing from different seasons or tempretures, so there is a great debate on "Do we catch the germs in the Mile High Club of Bacteria?" People take off their shoes and wear flight socks to get comfy, people changing clothes without washing, some people dont even bother to brush their teeth in the early mornings of the flight, some drool all over the seats, children vomiting from vertigo, and have you noticed how many people say "No thank you" to the lovely warm wet cleaning cloths before sleep and in the morning? - Germs Manifesting! What are your thoughts - you might want to peruse James' thoughts as well as he was instrumental in me bringing mine to ink. Germs on a Plane? Indeed, I think they have a thriving business happening UP There!!

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (382348)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Jan 16

Our doctor suggested we have flu shots before we left for overseas. When we queried whether we'd meet the same bugs in Europe he said it was to be protected from the germs in the plane on the way there. So we had the shots and didn't get sick at all.

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Inlemay

@Inlemay (17712)

• South Africa

11 Jan 16

so that seems like a good solution in preparing to travel. I think I will have my hubby do it next time - I have an overactive immune system so I dont need one

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502653)

• Italy

11 Jan 16

Of course there are plenty of germs in a plane. So many people for many hours in a closed space are not the best. I never caught a cold in a plane and I cannot count how many international flights we made from Europe to the United States and back.

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Inlemay

@Inlemay (17712)

• South Africa

11 Jan 16

but have you crossed the African continent like Judy and I have done - that is when the germs of 15 hour flights manifest

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502653)

• Italy

11 Jan 16

@Inlemay My longest flight has been 16 hours, I think enough to get germs.

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Inlemay

@Inlemay (17712)

• South Africa

12 Jan 16

@LadyDuck then you are like me - GOOD IMMUNE system!

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Marie

@Tampa_girl7 (54718)

• United States

12 Jan 16

I am sure that there are an abundance of germs on planes. I have been blessed that an airplane trip never made me sick.

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Jekca

@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

11 Jan 16

I totally used the warm clothes, and went and brushed!

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Inlemay

@Inlemay (17712)

• South Africa

12 Jan 16

I know - who doesnt do that?

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Fleur

@Fleura (35069)

• United Kingdom

7 Oct 16

I don't think you will catch a lung infection from people taking their shoes off. On the other hand of course you are shut in a confined space with a lot of other people, the air is continuously recycled around the cabin so air-born germs are bound to spread. And the increase in pressure as the plane descends may even force them in.

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