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« on: August 11, 2010, 04:03:23 PM »
Warning: Your Fellow Gym-Goers Could be Spreading Disease
10 August 2010, 2:37 pm

If you work out in a gym with other people, you might be at greater risk for skin infections than you bargained for. A recent report from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA),* notes that in athletic settings it is important to "assume that individuals are carriers of pathogenic microorganisms." Read more...

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« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2010, 08:39:33 PM »
This is exactly why I don't go to the gym.  I used to, but read an article about diseases/infections that are easily spread in environments like the gym.  I know someone that got a disease from a fitness center.  I'm not sure exactly what he got, but it affected him pretty badly.  I will work out at home where it is safer and cleaner!
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