-Teachers: Spending lots of time with students in a classroom increases your odds.
-Air Traffic Controllers and others in high stress positions: Chronic stress can impair immune function, making people vulnerable to whatever illnesses come their way.
-Medical residents & interns: They are exposed to loads of germs but haven't built up the immunity of seasoned doctors.
-Businesspeople with heavy travel schedules: Long hours spent in airplanes with other people's germs increases the chances of coming down with an upper respiratory infection or the flu.
-Day Care Workers: You can blame it on all the close contact with young kids, whose developing immune systems make them prey to every bug going around.
Taken from: Real Simple/11/06/page 204
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