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Article: A vacation to die for? Jet lag kills elderly rodents in study.(Travel-Books)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- December 31, 2006
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Byline: DEL QUENTIN WILBER - Washington Post
It's the caged-mouse syndrome of air travel: You feel crammed into your seat on a long-distance flight with little to munch on except a bag of pretzels.
But you better hope you beat jet lag better than a mouse.
A study at the University of Virginia released during the height of Thanksgiving and Christmas travel seasons showed that a majority of elderly mice died while being subjected to the equivalent of a Washington-to-Paris flight once a week for eight weeks. More intense forms of jet lag sped up the death rate in the elderly rodents, the study found.
For decades, fliers have stoically ...