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EPISODE · Aug 8, 2023 · 11 MIN

Can picking your nose lead to COVID

from What's That Rash? · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

If you think that excavating your nose is a harmless if somewhat disgusting habit - think again.A new study reckons you could emerge with COVID-19.Other studies worry about how forgetful having your fingernail so close to the brain might make you. And have you ever given thought to your nasal microbiome much less what our primate cousins get up to (hint: it's even more disgusting)?We drill deep on rhinotillexis.ReferencesRhinotillexomania: psychiatric disorder or habit?A review of nose picking in primates with new evidence of its occurrence in Daubentonia madagascariensisStaphylococcus aureus and the ecology of the nasal microbiome

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