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Experts say flushing toilet could spread coronavirus through faecal aerosols – The Australian
The everyday act of flushing the toilet has been revealed as a way coronavirus could be transmitted.
The everyday act of flushing the toilet has been revealed as a way coronavirus could be transmitted.
Health officials have long monitored wastewater and sewage as a way to track where the virus may be lurking in the community, but now experts have revealed it could also spread after a positive case does a number two.
UNSW Sydney head of the biosecurity program at the Kirby Institute, Raina MacIntyre, said the virus was excreted in the faeces.
“Flushing generates massive aerosolisation, so you could…
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