your health. Droplet infection

303 YOUR HEALTH Droplet Infection Every time you cough or sneeze you send tiny droplets of moisture into the surrounding air. This is not mere theory—these droplets have been photographed. When you have a cough or cold, sore throat, or influenza, you are like a gun loaded with disease germs. Every cough or sneeze shoots thousands of germ-laden droplets into the air. You spray people. In crowded places you are simply broad- casting infection. So think of your neighbour and don't be a spreader of droplets.