The research comes from travel specialists at the British law firm Slater and Gordon, who asked 2,000 vacationers to report their bathroom experiences abroad, according to the British publication Express. The firm originally funded the study because they noticed that there was a rise in the number of people requesting their services after falling ill while traveling.
Here are the top 10 places people have gotten sick abroad:
1. Spain (30 percent)
2. Turkey (15 percent)
3. Egypt (13 percent)
4. Greece (12 percent)
5. France (12 percent)
6. Italy (8 percent)
7. America (7 percent)
8. India (7 percent)
9. Morocco (6 percent)
10. Thailand (6 percent)
And that’s not the only information that came out of the study. The travel specialists also researched how likely people were to go to specific countries based on their fear of the food.
It turns out that one in four people said that the local food was definitely a factor in deciding where to go, and 40 percent said that simple hygiene was also a concern. As a whole, India caused the most concern: More than 20 percent of travelers said they chose to avoid the area because they did not want to get a case of the infamous “Delhi Belly.”
Vegetarians were especially concerned. Half of the vegetarians surveyed said that they simply did not trust that the veggies wouldn’t be mixed with meat while abroad. They weren’t exactly wrong: 37 percent had actually seen meat in a vegetarian dish on the menu.
Be sure to examine your food before you eat it, just to be extra safe.
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