USA Today: Should you worry about pesticide spraying on planes?

By Erin Elizabeth

(Editor’s Note: Although you might not believe this is happening, it is. Because it’s still legal. If you are going to be traveling to a place where they require spraying, make sure you educate yourself first and take the proper precautions.)

Disinsection (the use of insecticide on international flights and in other closed spaces for insect and disease control. Confusion with disinfection, the elimination of microbes on surfaces)occurs every day in countries all around the world, including on U.S. airlines- though usually the spraying is done when passengers are NOT onboard.

While it can be a little worrisome to suddenly be sprayed with pesticides, especially while locked in a pressurized tube, we know that insects can easily transmit deadly diseases like malaria, yellow fever, and now Zika- at least that’s why officials say they are spraying.

Therefore, in an effort to minimize that from happening, the World Health Organization and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) have established two primary methods: 1) spraying aerosol insecticides in the cabin while passengers are onboard, and 2) treating the airplane’s interior surfaces with a residual insecticide when passengers are not onboard (some airlines employ a third method, often used in Panama and American Samoa, spraying the cabin when passengers aren’t on board).

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