BY SUSANNE QUICK

MILWAUKEE - (KRT) - Cecil Fox will not take off his socks - or his shoes - when passing through airport security.

The retired director of the Molecular Histology Lab at the National Institutes of Health is concerned that thousands of Americans are being exposed to infectious fungi - such as the ones that cause athlete's foot - as they trod, shoeless, through airport metal detectors.

"People are being told to take their shoes off and ordered to walk through a morass of fungi," said Fox, who now lives in Little Rock, Ark. "It's outrageous."

Airport shoe inspection raises risk of foot fungi, some scientists say, continued