Corona-Transfer: How dangerous public toilets are?

The Covid-19-pandemic keeps the world in breath. More than 8.0 million people have been infected so far worldwide, with the novel Coronavirus, 186.544 in Germany – where it always comes back to local outbreaks.

Corona-Transfer: How dangerous public toilets are?

Public toilets could include the risk places for a Corona-infection. A study by Chinese scientists suggests that, at least, the results of which was published in the journal “Physics of Fluids”. The researchers studied how small particles distribute in the flush of a toilet in the air. It is possible that Virus-loaded Aerosol-clouds are breathed in by other people, close. Previous studies had already shown that the stools of Infected Coronavirus may contain living viruses, however, were found only very rarely. AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS

The physicists from the University of Yangzhou used detailed computer models, the water and air currents to draw that arise in the rinsing with different toilet types. Therefore be inhaled produced in the toilet vortex, which is in the Form of Aerosol clouds over the bowl and continued up to a height of almost one Meter, where you are or on surfaces could settle. The solution was simply to close: lift the seat before flushing.

Researchers at the American Swedish Medical center, however, have been evaluated in a meta-analysis of 29 studies related to gastrointestinal consequences of a Covid-19-disease with a 4805 patients. As they report in the journal “JAMA Network Open”, belonged to more than ten percent of all Infected diarrhea, Nausea or vomiting to the symptoms.

Regardless of the Virus, showed up at 40 percent of the Patients in the chair. However, only a study of viable virus in the stool and that too in only two of 153 samples reported. On dead virus material infection is possible. With a view to the risk of contagion, the toilet issue is, according to the current state of knowledge, probably more of a side-show.

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