News flash: The way that airlines board planes spreads diseases.
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This spring, on a long flight from Cabo to DC, I had a prime aisle seat in the 2nd last row of the plane.
There was a guy in the last row who coughed a few times before take-off.
Once in the air, it was 5 solid hours of coughing, wheezing and sneezing. Some of the sneezes literally landed on the back of my neck..
I thought my relatively dependable immune system would protect me.
Not so, lucky.
For more than 2 weeks, I had one of my worst colds in decades.
I was hacked at the guy for flying sick.
And, I wondered if the airlines could do more to protect passengers (like me) from disease-spreaders.
Well, a research team at Arizona State has partially answered that question to the affirmative.
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