On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:05:12 +0100, Adam Funk wrote:

|On 2006-08-24, Dave Fawthrop wrote:
|
|| The air is full of bacteria, your skin is, your car keys are, your steering
|| wheel is - and as for picking your nose or scratching your head ...
||
||The air is even more full of bacteria when warm air has been blowing
||across people's damp hands...
|
| Not all bacteria cause disease, many are helpful to the human body, notably
| those in Yoghurt and most strains of E-Coli.
|
|True, but I don't think you get probiotics off other people's damp
|hands after they've been to the toilet.

You probably do! They pass through the system like other bacteria.
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