You avoid touching toilet seats and stay away from garbage cans. Why? Because you have been warned that these places are loaded with germs and obviously you don’t want to fall sick!
But what if we told you that the plastic trays at the airport security (where you deposit your bags, shoes, coats, mobiles etc.) have colonies of germs on them?
A recent study by the scientists from the University of Nottingham in England and the Finnish National Institute for Health, found that the airport security trays are loaded with a variety of microbes, including the ones that normally cause the common cold.
The researchers took swabs from surfaces at the Helsinki Airport in Finland which were touched frequently in the winter of 2016 and discovered signs of rhinovirus (that causes the common cold) and influenza A virus.