Why Do You Always Get Sick After Final Exams?

Does it seem like every year you get sick the MINUTE you start your vacation? Anna explores why.
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Study on the effects of sleep on health:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...

Study on the effects of stress on medical students:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/...

PopSci article on how sneezes travel through airplanes:
http://www.popsci.com/article/science...

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Host, Writer, Editor
Anna Rothschild

DPs
Brooke Havlik and Marshall Johnson

Additional Help
Janet Sonenberg and Sam Christensen

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Additional Footage

How Sneeze Particles Travel Inside An Airplane by ANSYS
Courtesy ANSYS
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File:Natural-Killer-Cell-Lytic-Granule-Secretion-Occurs-through-a-Pervasive-Actin-Network-at-the-Immune-pbio.1001151.2014.org
(Via Wikimedia Commons) Video S1 from Rak G, Mace E, Banerjee P, Svitkina T, Orange J (2011). "Natural Killer Cell Lytic Granule Secretion Occurs through a Pervasive Actin Network at the Immune
Synapse". PLOS Biology. DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001151. PMID 21931536. PMC: 3172191.
http://1.usa.gov/1Jpawp7

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