With HINI on the rise and flu shots hard to find, few things are as terrifying as. But now a report in the journal psychological Science suggests that coughing and sneezing can spread more than viruses. They also spread fear, of germs and more. So you're on line for a movie when the guy behind you lets loose a big, juicy. Maybe you hold your breath, or maybe you decide to skip the flick and go home to scrub your hands like you're Lady Macbeth. Well, psychological got to wondering whether that well-grounded caution could snowball into an overarching skittishness about disease and other things. So they stationed a colleague on a college campus and had her sneeze loudly as students walked by. They then asked those students to estimate the risk the average American runs of having a heart attack or getting killed in an accident. Sure enough, kids who'd heard sneezing were more doom-and-gloom than those who got away Scott tissue-free.