You show up, and millions of microbes launch

Monday, April 2, 2012 - 17:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Merely walking into a room can begin to stir up the microbial soup that fills it — one person can send about 37 million bacteria into the air every hour, according to new research that measured microbes suspended in a room when it was occupied and unoccupied.

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