Single sneeze can infect 150 people
A wayward and un-smothered sneeze in the wrong place can give 150 people a cold in just FIVE minutes, research has found.
Boffins warn that crowded commuter locations such as trains, buses and underground stations are the worst places for catching a cold.
Analysis found that the average sneeze shoots 100,000 germ-infected droplets into the air at 90mph - each one is capable of passing on a cold.
If they land on seats, rails or other frequently touched items each sneeze could infect 150 fellow commuters warns cold and flu expert Dr Roger Henderson ... and that is if you are not directly sneezed on.
If anyone needs me, I will be the one cowering in the corner of London Victoria station waiting for my train with a gas mask on.
Of 1,300 workers who also were quizzed about colds a whopping 99 percent said that had suffered at least one last winter.
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