When
you fart, are you spraying microbes all over? Should we fear the
effects of flatulence in a crowd? Science is on the question!
“It
all started with an inquiry from a nurse,” Dr Karl Kruszelnicki told
listeners to his science phone-in show on the Triple J radio station in
Brisbane. “She wanted to know whether she was contaminating the
operating theater she worked in by quietly farting in the sterile
environment during operations, and I realized that I didn’t know. But I
was determined to find out.”
The upshot is that if
people fart while wearing clothes, you’re pretty safe. But fart naked,
and it’s a whole different story. And you’ll want to read
that story of the experiment by which Dr. Kruszelnicki found the answer at Discover magazine. Oh, the things that researchers do in the name of science!
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