Bathroom hand-dryers suck in poo-particles and aerosolize them all over you and everything else
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3M5NW)
A new study in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (Sci-Hub mirror) conducted microbial surveys of the bathrooms at the University of Connecticut (where the study's lead authors are based) to investigate whether hand-dryers were sucking in potentially infectious microbes and then spraying them all over everything, as had been observed in earlier studies. (more")