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Originally Posted by SV650rules
When you find out how many times the air is passed around the cabin in an aircraft it scares the living daylights out of you - very little fresh air makes its way into the cabin during a flight, and your have to worry about engine fumes as well - and the cabin air gets very dry, which drys your mucus membranes ( sinus etc) and leaves you well open to be the host / venue of a bug party... I used to regularly fly Sydney - LA or SF and than on to East coast ( business ) 14 hours non-stop and then change planes for another 5 or 6 hours - I used to pick up all sorts of maladies even though I drank all the water I could get my hands on... Ah, happy days ( bl*0dy glad I don't do travel like that any more  ). |
Indeed, same for me when I travel on the Euro Star, I always pick up
some bug