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Here’s a good reason to put down the toilet lid before you flush: a new study suggests that the water from a flushed toilet could spray into the air spreading coronavirus.
The study conducted by a team at Yangzhou University in China used computer modeling to show how flushing the toilet can send a cloud of little particles containing fecal matter into the air, as high as three feet.
And fecal matter could carry coronavirus.
The findings were written in the journal of Physics of Fluids.
Doctors have shown that the coronavirus can live and replicate in the digestive system and evidence of the virus has been found in human waste.
The authors of the study suggest that whenever possible we should keep the toilet seat down when we flush, clean the toilet seat and other areas frequently and wash our hands after using the bathroom.
However they say while the study is unable to demonstrate that these measures will reduce transmission of the virus, it is still a good hygiene practice to have since many other viruses are transmitted this route.
Posted – 6.17.2020