HUMANS EMIT A “GERM CLOUD”

Every human on earth has a cloud of germs surrounding them at all times that is almost as distinct to that person as a fingerprint. The “microbial cloud” contains millions of bugs that are put out from various pores and points in our bodies. Scientists were able to identify individuals from a group of volunteers just by sampling germs from the air around them. Scientists from the University of Oregon tested 11 volunteers. They were able to identify thousands of different types of bacteria in 312 samples of air and dust taken from a chamber in which each participant was asked to sit alone. Most of the chamber occupants could be identified within four hours by matching them to their bugs.
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* Imagine Pig Pen from the Peanuts comic strip.
* This kind of makes all the business with sterilizing hand spray kind of a joke, no?
* I’m always glad when someone comes up with a new way for the government to track us.
* Now imagine you work at Disney and have to put on a character costume somebody else wore all day yesterday.
* If humans have a germ cloud surrounding them, Miley Cyrus is the Dust Bowl.
* That’s why those obsessively anal people are so silly about contact with the world. We’re all in this together, folks. It’s one big slimy swamp.
* You take the finest supermodel and look closely at her skin. There are things crawling around on there that could star in a science fiction movie.
* I know we’re always tough on these small sample groups but 11 people? That could be a new record for not really trying.
* What did the researchers say? “Let’s stop at 11 because an even dozen would be overkill”?
* Maybe after the 11th germ cloud they were just too grossed out to continue.