{"id":7476,"date":"2024-08-27T21:07:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T02:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7476"},"modified":"2024-08-27T21:07:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T02:07:07","slug":"can-you-get-sick-from-the-germs-in-toilet-plumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/27\/can-you-get-sick-from-the-germs-in-toilet-plumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you get sick from the germs in toilet plumes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2024\/08\/16\/toilet-plume-germs\/\">Washington Post<\/a> When you flush a toilet, invisible plumes, which may contain viruses, can shoot almost five feet into the air and spread horizontally within a short time, a study showed. Is it true that there\u2019s an invisible plume of pathogens that spews out of the toilet when you flush it \u2014 and that it can make you sick? When you flush a toilet, aerosols containing any pathogen residing in the bowl spray into the bathroom. A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-022-24686-5\">2022 study<\/a>\u00a0that used lasers to illuminate these aerosolized plumes found that the plumes, which may contain bacteria and viruses, can shoot almost five feet into the air \u2014 the approximate height of the nose and mouth of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/body-measurements.htm\">an average adult<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 within about eight seconds of the flush, said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/ceae\/john-p-crimaldi\">John Crimaldi<\/a>, a professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who was the lead author of the study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2024\/08\/16\/toilet-plume-germs\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post When you flush a toilet, invisible plumes, which may contain viruses, can shoot almost five feet into the air and spread horizontally within a short time, a study showed. Is it true that there\u2019s an invisible plume of pathogens that spews out of the toilet when you flush it \u2014 and that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7477,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476\/revisions\/7477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}