It doesn’t take a pee-HD to see that urinals aren’t the cleanest things around. But can a urinal flush actually spread viruses like the Covid-19 coronavirus to you? Well, to answer this question in a ...

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Tiny droplets which can harbour small pieces of urine, faeces, vomit and viruses float into the air at mouth-level after a toilet is flushed, a new study has warned. It shows that tens of thousands of ...

Public urinals may expose you to coronavirus, according to a study. Researchers from Yangzhou University in China found that flushing urinals can release clouds of virus-containing aerosols that you ...

Flushing a urinal causes an “alarming upward flow” of coronavirus-laden particles, a new study has found — prompting health experts to recommend wearing face coverings in public bathrooms. Researchers ...

Chinese researchers have recently reported that flushing public restroom toilets or urinals can spew clouds of particles carrying viruses, including Covid-19. The study, published in the journal ...

Flushing a toilet can generate large quantities of microbe-containing aerosols depending on the design, water pressure or flushing power of the toilet. A variety of pathogens are usually found in ...

We take it for granted that urinals flush. With each pull of the lever, gallons of clean water come to whisk away a few ounces of pee. If you think about it, it’s actually pretty wasteful, and the ...

Wearing a mask in public restrooms should be mandatory during the pandemic, researchers say, because there's increasing evidence that flushing toilets – and now urinals – can release inhalable ...