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Offline mishca09

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how much bacteria is exchanged from 10 second kiss?
« on: November 17, 2014, 05:00:10 PM »
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Re: how much bacteria is exchanged from 10 second kiss?
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2014, 05:38:34 PM »
I heard that this was going to be on the news tonight around 530pm, but I changed the channel so never heard what it was about. And now, too lazy to actually look it up.

But is that total, or each way?
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I think it sounds like more than it is. How many bacteria are exchanged during a 5 minute bathroom break for example? or a 2 second handshake?

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Re: how much bacteria is exchanged from 10 second kiss?
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2014, 05:43:07 PM »
 I don't think I want to know what bacteria I may pick up from a 5 minute bathroom break. I think they did do a study on the amount of bacteria transferred from handshake.

I"ll look it up and post the results..

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Re: how much bacteria is exchanged from 10 second kiss?
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2014, 05:44:41 PM »
its not  a even exchange… the article says one partner transfer 80 million 'bugs' to the other partner

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30055646

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couldn't find the handshake study.
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Re: how much bacteria is exchanged from 10 second kiss?
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2014, 06:25:08 PM »
Are you saying that's a large number?

Cause it's kinda small compared with the 100 trillion we carry in our intestines.  ;D

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Re: how much bacteria is exchanged from 10 second kiss?
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2014, 06:27:26 PM »
but its good bacteria.

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Re: how much bacteria is exchanged from 10 second kiss?
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2014, 06:49:18 PM »
but its good bacteria.

I have good news and bad news.
The good news is the vast majority of bacteria in saliva are harmless.
The bad news is you should take into account viruses and fungi too.  ;D

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Re: how much bacteria is exchanged from 10 second kiss?
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Re: how much bacteria is exchanged from 10 second kiss?
« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2014, 08:56:41 PM »
Forget the kiss, guess how many germs are on your keyboard.
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Re: how much bacteria is exchanged from 10 second kiss?
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2014, 06:14:52 AM »
Forget the kiss, guess how many germs are on your keyboard.

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Re: how much bacteria is exchanged from 10 second kiss?
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2014, 02:51:16 PM »
Forget the kiss, guess how many germs are on your keyboard.

Not as many as there are on your chopping board.
Don't put off until tomorrow, what you can put off until the day after.

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