Do not go in for aisle seats in flights – it could be dangerous

Many passengers prefer to choose the aisle seat in flights because that way they can avoid getting squeezed in between other passengers or between the wall of the aircraft and the passenger sitting next to him.
However, choosing aisle seats in flights are fraught with unseen dangers – in the opinion of Chuck Gerba, a microbiologist from the University of Arizona who is a leader in infectious diseases, these seats are the ones that could carry the highest number of germs because of the number of people it gets exposed to as they walk by or even touch so that they do not lose their balance.
Therefore, people should avoid aisle seats since whoever occupies that seat would be more likely to come in contact with, and be contaminated by, other passengers on the flight.
It seems when members of a tour group with norovirus came down with symptoms of uncontrollable vomiting and diarrhea during a flight from Boston to Los Angeles, they had to make regular visits to the bathroom. The extent of contamination forced the plane to go in for an emergency landing in Chicago to enable the infected passengers to be taken to the hospital.
Subsequently, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in the US contacted all passengers on the plane to establish if anyone else had contracted the virus from the flight and their findings revealed that most of those who had caught norovirus were sitting in an aisle seats.
Hence, they were more likely to have made contact with the infected passengers who were walking back and forth to the bathroom because the affected passengers would have been holding onto the aisle seats to maintain their balance – accordingly, the risk of contamination was increased.