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Everyone has a 'microbial cloud'
BBC ^
| James Gallagher
Posted on 09/23/2015 11:45:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Everyone is surrounded by a unique "cloud" of millions of their own bacteria, according to scientists at the University of Oregon in the US.
Walk through someone else's cloud, and it will "rain" bacteria on your skin and be breathed into your lungs.
The study on 11 people, published in the journal PeerJ, showed it was possible to identify people from their microbial miasma.
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Groups of bacteria in the cloud included Streptococcus, which is common in the mouth, and the skin bugs Propionibacterium and Corynebacterium.
The researchers argue the mix may have a "forensic application" to detect whether someone had passed through a room.
However, it is not clear how much someone's microbial cloud changes over time.
Adam Altrichter, a research assistant on the project, told the BBC News website: "There is a germaphobe aspect to this, but we need to understand that we're not sterile and this is something completely natural and healthy."
He said the size of someone's cloud was still untested, but was likely to be a few feet.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: bacteria; cloud; health; microbial; microbialcloud
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posted on
09/23/2015 11:45:28 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
I’d like to bump my microbial cloud into her microbial cloud and see if we can start a storm.
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posted on
09/23/2015 11:49:24 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: BenLurkin
Oh wow, there is a scientific basis for individual “a$$-funk”.
CC
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posted on
09/23/2015 11:50:17 AM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(Sufficient unto the day are the troubles therof)
To: DannyTN
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posted on
09/23/2015 11:51:41 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/23/2015 11:51:54 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Is that what Pig Pen in Peanuts had?
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posted on
09/23/2015 11:52:30 AM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
To: kosciusko51
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posted on
09/23/2015 11:53:11 AM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
To: BenLurkin
He said the size of someone's cloud was still untested
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud.
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posted on
09/23/2015 11:53:22 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: oh8eleven
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posted on
09/23/2015 11:53:59 AM PDT
by
kjam22
(my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
To: BenLurkin
Everyone has a unique cloud. I no longer have passwords or have to log on with a thumbprint.
I enter the room and am immediately logged in.
(except for this morning, danged Baked Beans!)
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posted on
09/23/2015 11:55:04 AM PDT
by
TexasTransplant
(Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
To: kosciusko51
LOL. I won by a nose (pun intended).
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posted on
09/23/2015 11:55:39 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: BenLurkin
And some folks’ microbial clouds are bigger and more powerful than others’!
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posted on
09/23/2015 11:55:53 AM PDT
by
jpl
("You cannot defeat an enemy you do not admit exists." - Lt. General Michael Flynn)
To: BenLurkin
Not me!
My “microbial cloud” has been neutralized by copious ingestion of distilled ethanol products.
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posted on
09/23/2015 11:55:55 AM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(BREAKING: Boy Scouts of America Changes Corporate Identity to "Scouting for Boys in America")
To: BenLurkin
I cleanse the cloud every evening with martini’s. :-)
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posted on
09/23/2015 11:57:34 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
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posted on
09/23/2015 11:57:54 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
...we need to understand that we're not sterile... Anyone with an IQ higher than that of an imbecile already understands this.
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posted on
09/23/2015 11:57:58 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
To: TexasTransplant
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posted on
09/23/2015 11:58:18 AM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(BREAKING: Boy Scouts of America Changes Corporate Identity to "Scouting for Boys in America")
To: WayneS
Right, and that if we were sterile, we would be dead.
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posted on
09/23/2015 12:00:00 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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