{"id":81185,"date":"2018-07-31T14:42:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T21:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/hong-kong-subway-study-shows-how-quickly-bacteria-travel-across-a-city"},"modified":"2018-08-04T10:01:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T17:01:32","slug":"hong-kong-subway-study-shows-how-quickly-bacteria-travel-across-a-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/hong-kong-subway-study-shows-how-quickly-bacteria-travel-across-a-city","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Subway Study Shows How Quickly Bacteria Travel Across a City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hong-kong-subway-study-shows-how-quickly-bacteria-travel-across-a-city.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uitp.org\/sites\/default\/files\/cck-focus-papers-files\/UITP_Statistic%20Brief_national%20PT%20stats.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">billions of people<\/a> worldwide to use mass public transit regularly, you\u2019re sharing a lot more than a commute with your fellow passengers, suggests a new study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-reports\/fulltext\/S2211-1247(18)31051-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> Tuesday in Cell Reports. You\u2019re also sharing and swapping the teeming microbes that call our bodies home.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Hong Kong\u2014home to a public transit system that services 5 million commuters every day\u2014recruited volunteers for an unique experiment. Over the course of several days, volunteers were asked to ride one of eight subway lines on the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway system during the morning and evening rush hour. Before they boarded, they washed their hands, and once on board, they made ample use of the handrails. After they spent 30 minutes on the train, they exited and had their palms swabbed by researchers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/hong-kong-subway-study-shows-how-quickly-bacteria-trave-1827981382\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/hong-kong-subway-study-shows-how-quickly...1827981382<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re one of the billions of people worldwide to use mass public transit regularly, you\u2019re sharing a lot more than a commute with your fellow passengers, suggests a new study published Tuesday in Cell Reports. You\u2019re also sharing and swapping the teeming microbes that call our bodies home. Researchers in Hong Kong\u2014home to a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81367,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81185\/revisions\/81367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}