Do farts carry germs? It’s probably
something you’ve never thought about, but
now that you’ve heard the question, we bet
you’re sort of curious. But be warned, this
isn’t going to be pretty.
“It all started with an enquiry from a nurse,”
said Dr Karl Kruszelnicki during his science
show on the Triple J radio station in
Brisbane, Australia. “She wanted to know
whether she was contaminating the
operating theatre she worked in by quietly
farting in the sterile environment during
operations, and I realised that I didn’t know.
But I was determined to find out.”
According to the Seriously, Science blog
at Discover Magazine, Kruszelnicki
investigated the question by getting in
contact with Canberra-based microbiologist,
Luke Tennent, who helped him design and
carry out an experiment. The aim was to
discover whether or not the wind emitted
from a human was filled with germs or just
simply smelt bad.
Kruszelnicki explained what happened
next:
“[Tennent] asked a colleague to break wind
directly onto two Petri dishes from a
distance of 5 centimetres, first fully clothed,
then with his trousers down. Then he
observed what happened. Overnight, the
second Petri dish sprouted visible lumps of
two types of bacteria that are usually found
only in the gut and on the skin. But the
flatus [gas] which had passed through
clothing caused no bacteria to sprout, which
suggests that clothing acts as a filter.”
Kruszelnicki and Tennent noticed two types
of bacteria in the second Petri dish - in the
centre were the bacteria caused by the
subject’s fart gas, they said, and a ring of
different bacteria around the edge of the
Petri dish "was caused by the sheer velocity
of the fart, which blew skin bacteria from
the cheeks and blasted it onto the dish”,
reports Seriously, Science.
The good news? The bacteria that grew was
not in any way harmful. The other good
news? Scientific evidence for why you
should never, ever get naked and fart near
your food. You're welcome.
SOURCE. pda.sciencealert.com.au/features/20140509-26132-2.html

Hmmmmm.......end time tins *smh*

Which blew skin bacteria from the cheeks and blasted it onto the dish

...and it triggered the 3rd world war

drsolob2: "was caused by the sheer velocity
of the fart, which blew skin bacteria from
the cheeks and blasted it onto the dish”,

I love this! Sounds like the genesis of world war III

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I love this! Sounds like the genesis of world war III

Hmm me I dnt known ohh

Imagine fart's bacteria are harmful, imagine farts from public places.
Thank God ebola is not fart contageous, it would have been more deadly.