And while she made sure to say that her post was «simply for awareness, not to instill fear,» that didn't stop nearly 150,000 Facebook users from reacting and over 500,000 from sharing Ward's message that public - restroom dryers are germ vectors spewing potentially
harmful microbes on your hands.
Not exact matches
Things like bacteria and
microbes tracked in
on your shoes and soot from scented candles can be
harmful.
Researchers have known for years that TBI has significant effects
on the gastrointestinal tract, but until now, scientists have not recognized that brain trauma can make the colon more permeable, potentially allowing allow
harmful microbes to migrate from the intestine to other areas of the body, causing infection..
But concentrating only
on harmful microbes misses out a large part of the picture.
Tolerogenic pAPCs train tolerant T cells to accept harmless antigens, while inflammatory pAPCs train inflammatory T cells to attack
harmful antigens
on microbes or molecules that may enter the gut.
A more moderate argument is that, while highly unlikely, there is a chance Martian
microbes could have a
harmful impact
on Earth, by competing with existing organisms for example.