About 4.5M Americans will fly, turning crowded airports and planes into hotbeds of germs during the cold and flu season. - TODAYshow
,” Kiril Vaglenov, a post-doctoral fellow in materials science who led the study, told NBC News.
What he found was unsettling for anyone who’s wondered how many fingers have touched the seat pocket that holds the in-flight instructions. MRSA lasted 168 hours — a week — on a cloth seatback pocket, Vaglenov found. Other tests showed that E. coli O157 hung around for 96 hours — four days — on the material from the airplane armrest.
But a top infection control specialist said it’s no surprise the Auburn team found bacteria survive so long on these surfaces.
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