He was travelling on an eight-hour flight from Paris to Toronto when he noticed a strong manure-like odour and a large stain on the floor in front of his seat. It was the uncleaned remnants of a previous passenger's hemorrhage.
Habib Battah is seen on an Air France flight from Paris to Toronto in a June 30, 2023, cleaning blood that had transferred onto his bag.
"Millions of travellers travel to, from, and within Canada each year. Given the close quarters travellers share for extended periods, environmental sanitation practices are especially important to reduce the risk of spreading communicable diseases," the agency wrote in a statement. Battah alerted cabin crew and said he was given cleaning supplies. After wiping the floor beneath his seat, the cloth came out "blood red," he said. "It all made sense to me because I know the smell of blood does smell almost like feces when it's rotten," he said.
"I really think there's a serious issue with the hygiene of aircrafts and there's no oversight on that, it seems," Battah said.The Public Health Agency of Canada said bodily fluids like blood and diarrhea may contain microorganisms that cause disease and anything that comes in contact with them "should always be considered as contaminated and should be handled with care so that diseases are not spread from one person to another.
"When you identify a biohazard issue on an airplane, it's the reaction of the carrier that's important," Gradek said.
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