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Traveling for the Holidays? Here's How to Not Get Sick

WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More

There’s a cruel irony in the fact that holiday travel tends to coincide with the rise of flu season. Yet more than 47 million Americans are preparing to sit for hours inside a tube in the sky, perhaps near someone with a hacking cough. It sounds like the perfect (infectious) storm. But reaching your destination without collecting microbial stowaways isn’t as daunting as it seems.

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