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| After the investigation of 1300 office workers on | | | | every 5 minutes. |
| health status carried out by a well-known medicine | | | | The researchers added that people who commuted to |
| pharmaceutical company, they found that 96% of | | | | work usually were aware of other people's cold |
| office workers who went to work by bus caught a | | | | symptoms, 67% of people said they would still go to |
| cold at least one time. In contrast, only 58% of those | | | | work by bus even if they were ill. 20% of respondents |
| who worked at home suffered from a cold while 88% | | | | said they were irritated at other passengers who did |
| of people who walked to work had a cold. Dr. Roger | | | | not use paper towels when sneezing. 33% of people |
| Anderson, an expert at cold and flu analyzed the result | | | | said they were angry people who did not muffle their |
| that when people sneezed, 100 000 saliva droplets | | | | mouths when they cough. Men seem to be more |
| were emitted, which were spread in air at the speed | | | | susceptible to make error because only 67% of them |
| of 145 km per hour. Bacteria and viruses contained in | | | | carried paper towel while 67% of women carried |
| saliva can attach to handrails, seats and other places | | | | paper towel. 12% of passengers said they would feel |
| where was repeatedly touched within two seconds | | | | nervous when they saw people sneezing. Only 8% of |
| unless the person sneezed with a tissue or | | | | the people would directly advised the person who |
| handkerchief. According to Dr. Anderson’s | | | | were sneezing to pay attention to his behavior, most |
| estimates, 10% of people would expose to the place | | | | people chose to walk away or laughed it off. |