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1 .This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.
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2 .Planning to attend a Super Bowl party in Boston or Seattle this Sunday?
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3 .If so, you might think twice about sticking your chips in the communal dip.
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4 .Because such dippy activity is cited in a new study that finds that cities with a team in the Super Bowl go on to experience a spike in deaths from influenza.
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5 .The findings are described in an article by researchers at Tulane University and the College of William and Mary.
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6 .Football is a contact sport, and watching the game is lousy with contact too.
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7 .On Super Bowl Sunday, fans gather close together on couches and bar stools to cheer for their teams.
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8 .But the contest takes place at the height of flu season, which made researchers wonder whether spectators in close quarters might be sharing more than nachos and wings.
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9 .So the investigators looked at mortality data from 1974 through 2009.
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10 .And they found that sending a team to the Super Bowl caused an 18 percent increase in flu deaths among those over 65 in the two towns.
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11 .The senior citizens don't even have to watch the game to be at increased risk, they could catch the virus from someone else who picked it up at a party or the pub.
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12 .And the death toll is higher in years when the flu is more severe, like this season.
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13 .So when you watch, also wash your hands, frequently.
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14 .That way, when your favorite wideout makes a big catch, you won't catch something too.
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15 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
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