Commercial toilets emit energetic and rapidly spreading aerosol plumes

Abstract Aerosols can transmit infectious diseases including SARS-CoV-2, influenza and norovirus. Flushed toilets emit aerosols that spread pathogens contained in feces, but little is known about the spatiotemporal evolution of these plumes or the velocity fields that transport them. Using laser lig...

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Main Authors: John P. Crimaldi, Aaron C. True, Karl G. Linden, Mark T. Hernandez, Lars T. Larson, Anna K. Pauls
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-24686-5