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Older airline passengers with a history of heart disease may be more prone to heartbeat irregularities. As a leading cause for in-flight emergencies is fainting, and that feeling faint has been linked to high altitudes and heartbeat irregularity, Eileen McNeely, from Harvard School of Public Health (Massachusetts, USA), and colleagues assessed how typical commercial air …
UCLA (US) researchers find that a single infected individual traveling on an airplane can cause multiple outbreaks of influenza as a result of in-flight transmission, particularly in economy class and during long-haul flights. Â Â In that scientists have previously determined that contagious diseases including smallpox, measles, tuberculosis, seasonal influenza and severe acute respiratory syndrome …