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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.

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Planning to attend a Super Bowl party in Boston or Seattle this Sunday?

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If so, you might think twice about sticking your chips in the communal dip.

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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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The findings are described in an article by researchers at Tulane University and the College of William and Mary.

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Football is a contact sport, and watching the game is lousy with contact too.

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On Super Bowl Sunday, fans gather close together on couches and bar stools to cheer for their teams.

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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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So the investigators looked at mortality data from 1974 through 2009.

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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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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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And the death toll is higher in years when the flu is more severe, like this season.

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So when you watch, also wash your hands, frequently.

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That way, when your favorite wideout makes a big catch, you won't catch something too.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.

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