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April 7, 2018 03:35 pm PDT
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Bathroom hand-dryers suck in poo-particles and aerosolize them all over you and everything else
A new study in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (Sci-Hub mirror) conducted microbial surveys of the bathrooms at the University of Connecticut (where the study's lead authors are based) to investigate whether hand-dryers were sucking in potentially infectious microbes and then spraying them all over everything, as had been observed in earlier studies. (more…)
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