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Virus transmission from urinals

A virus-laden particle movement from urinal flushing is simulated. Similar to the toilet-induced flushing, results indicate that the trajectory of the particles triggered by the urinal flushing manifests an external spread type. Even more alarmingly, the particle can reach 0.84 m (man’s thigh) in 5....

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Autores principales: Wang, Ji-Xiang, Li, Yun-Yun, Liu, Xiang-Dong, Cao, Xiang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AIP Publishing LLC 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7437949/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32831536
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0021450
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description A virus-laden particle movement from urinal flushing is simulated. Similar to the toilet-induced flushing, results indicate that the trajectory of the particles triggered by the urinal flushing manifests an external spread type. Even more alarmingly, the particle can reach 0.84 m (man’s thigh) in 5.5 s when compared with the diffusion performance of the toilet-induced one (around 0.93 m in 35 s). A more violent climbing tendency is discovered in this Letter. Wearing masks should be made mandatory in public washrooms, and anti-diffusion improvements of facilities in public washrooms are urgently needed, especially in the current “SARS-CoV-2” crisis.
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spelling pubmed-74379492020-08-19 Virus transmission from urinals Wang, Ji-Xiang Li, Yun-Yun Liu, Xiang-Dong Cao, Xiang Phys Fluids (1994) Letters A virus-laden particle movement from urinal flushing is simulated. Similar to the toilet-induced flushing, results indicate that the trajectory of the particles triggered by the urinal flushing manifests an external spread type. Even more alarmingly, the particle can reach 0.84 m (man’s thigh) in 5.5 s when compared with the diffusion performance of the toilet-induced one (around 0.93 m in 35 s). A more violent climbing tendency is discovered in this Letter. Wearing masks should be made mandatory in public washrooms, and anti-diffusion improvements of facilities in public washrooms are urgently needed, especially in the current “SARS-CoV-2” crisis. AIP Publishing LLC 2020-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7437949/ /pubmed/32831536 http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0021450 Text en Copyright © 2020 Author(s) Published under license by AIP Publishing. 1070-6631/2020/32(8)/081703/4/$30.00 All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7437949/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0021450
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