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Flushing the Toilet May Fling Coronavirus Aerosols All Over nytimes.com/2020/06/16/hea… Part 2: everything old is new again. See thread for prior work on this topic. /1
Beautiful video of droplet generation from toilet flushing by Lydia Bourouiba from 2013 lbourouiba.mit.edu/research/proje… /2
Emission Strength of Airborne Pathogens During Toilet Flushing ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… showed that bacteria can be emitted during flushing /3
C. diff found 25 cm above toilet and also contaminates surrounding environment in hospitals pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22137761/ /4
MS2 virus found at 2400 PFU/m3 in air above toilets after flushing pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16033465/ /5
Adenovirus and others found in 81% of aerosol samples above toilets in office building and hospital pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24818773/ /6
Nice review of toilet plume aerosol from 2013 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23040490/ /7
Aerosolization of Ebola virus surrogates from toilet, aeration basin model, sewer model pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… by @kaisen_lin in my group /8
I'll stop here. Big question is whether SARS-CoV-2 is infectious in feces. This work suggests it is: wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26… /9
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