"Did you know that, whenever a toilet is flushed, some of its contents are aerosolized? Knight’s lab has sequenced the bacteria on toothbrushes. 'You want to keep your toothbrush a minimum of six feet away from a toilet,' one of Knight’s colleagues told me."
@jalefkowit Rob Knight has a great (audio)book called “Follow your gut”. I read it after Ed Yong’s “I Contain Multitudes”. Both are awesome because both contain an endless stream of these WTF moments—many involving 💩😋
@jalefkowit “Follow your gut” talked about how a freshly-cleaned toilet seat cover is immediately colonized by fecal bacteria upon first flush but these are quickly outcompeted by commensal skin microbes—until the next cleaning. So hospitals e.g. are looking at cleaning less, and opening more windows, to get more harmless commensals to coat their surfaces instead of letting only the hardiest pathogens have a chance. Awesome stuff.
@jalefkowit going back to outhouses would solve that problem!
@jalefkowit I finally read the whole thing and found there were much more important things in it! Thanks for the click baity toot though :-)
@koos I live to serve
@jalefkowit to serve the bacteria in your gut, as I understood it
@jalefkowit Old news (article dates from 2013) but still good to know.