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Taking Showers Can Be Harmful To Your Health

Posted by timothy on from the healthiest-guy-alive dept.

TheClockworkSoul writes "According to both the BBC and NewScientist, showering may be bad for your health. Apparently, dirty shower heads can be an ideal breeding ground for Mycobacterium avium, a bug responsible for a type of pulmonary disease more prevalent than tuberculosis in developed countries, cases of which have risen in parallel with the rise in showering. Tests revealed nearly a third of devices harbor significant levels of the critter."

2 of 431 comments (clear)

  1. First shower! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Worse or better than first post?!

  2. Re:does CLR kill it? by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "considered harmful" What!? Like goto?

    If I add the keyword backfrom, does it make things better?

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