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On sanitation, diversity, and public toilets:
Thoroughly scrubbed toilets are first colonised by faecal microbes, launched into the air by flushed water. Those species are eventually out-competed by a diverse range of skin microbes, but once the toilet gets scrubbed again, the communities go back to square one. So, here's the irony: toilets that are cleaned too often are more likely to be covered in faecal bacteria.
— Aug 11, 2021 09:52AM
Thoroughly scrubbed toilets are first colonised by faecal microbes, launched into the air by flushed water. Those species are eventually out-competed by a diverse range of skin microbes, but once the toilet gets scrubbed again, the communities go back to square one. So, here's the irony: toilets that are cleaned too often are more likely to be covered in faecal bacteria.
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