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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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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

all new meaning behind that Rolling Stones song...

Hey you get off of my cloud


21 posted on 09/23/2015 12:00:06 PM PDT by Cyclone59 (Where are we going, and what's with the handbasket?)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

See my #15

GMTA


22 posted on 09/23/2015 12:01:13 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (BREAKING: Boy Scouts of America Changes Corporate Identity to "Scouting for Boys in America")
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To: BenLurkin

I’ll have to show this to my (smoking-hot) wife!


23 posted on 09/23/2015 12:01:58 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (BREAKING: Boy Scouts of America Changes Corporate Identity to "Scouting for Boys in America")
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To: Cyclone59

Oh, my!
Pardon me.

:-)


24 posted on 09/23/2015 12:03:15 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (BREAKING: Boy Scouts of America Changes Corporate Identity to "Scouting for Boys in America")
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To: BenLurkin

Every since I saw Mike Rowe’s show on germs, one segment was about airplanes, it re-enforced my decision to stop flying 15 years ago.


25 posted on 09/23/2015 12:04:17 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

LOL!


26 posted on 09/23/2015 12:04:18 PM 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)
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To: BenLurkin

Some people’s clouds are larger than others.Like smell ‘em across the room large.


27 posted on 09/23/2015 12:07:31 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: BenLurkin

I hereby declare the space occupied by my microbial cloud to be a sovereign nation.

Anyone attempting to illegally immigrate into the borders of my cloud without a visa will be subject to assault by my microbial air force. You’ve been warned!


28 posted on 09/23/2015 12:11:33 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: oh8eleven

My cloud is bigger.


29 posted on 09/23/2015 12:13:52 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: BenLurkin

hey ... you
get offa my cloud


30 posted on 09/23/2015 12:28:32 PM PDT by zzwhale
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To: BenLurkin

sounds like a microbial aggression.


31 posted on 09/23/2015 12:35:09 PM PDT by mykroar ("Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck)
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To: BenLurkin

“He said the size of someone’s cloud was still untested, but was likely to be a few feet.”

Hmmm. Turns out one’s aura is real after all, but instead of being all pretty like, it’s simply nasty.


32 posted on 09/23/2015 12:35:29 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: DannyTN

“I’d like to bump my microbial cloud into her microbial cloud and see if we can start a storm.”

The perfect storm, perhaps?


33 posted on 09/23/2015 12:36:00 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: BenLurkin

I’m sure there’s a global warming joke in this somewhere.


34 posted on 09/23/2015 12:37:38 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: BenLurkin

I wonder if it would be possible to scan an area with a laser or a microwave beam from a distance and look for the unique diffraction pattern of an individual based on their unique “microbiological cloud”.


35 posted on 09/23/2015 12:37:46 PM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: BenLurkin

Ahhhhh, so Howard Hughes was right then...where’d I put those tissue boxes...?


36 posted on 09/23/2015 12:40:37 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job...)
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To: PUGACHEV

Sounds from the article that the mad scientists are working on something like that already.


37 posted on 09/23/2015 12:41:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
Everyone has a 'microbial cloud'

How many gigabytes can I upload to it?

38 posted on 09/23/2015 1:22:12 PM PDT by moovova
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To: BenLurkin

Can’t you just imagine the size and, um, distinctiveness, of Michael Moore’s ‘microbial cloud’?

No, I can’t either.

Trying to imagine such a thing would truly boggle the senses, and I’d prefer not to have my senses boggled right now...


39 posted on 09/23/2015 1:24:08 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Zeppo
Can’t you just imagine the size and, um, distinctiveness, of Michael Moore’s ‘microbial cloud’?


40 posted on 09/23/2015 2:07:35 PM PDT by DannyTN
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