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Monday, October 8, 2012

Cold and flu season is back again. Let's take a look at the sub-microscopic villain responsible for so much misery every year.



Today's Random Fact:

A team of Korean scientists set up some traps to catch viruses and bacteria floating in the air. They set up their traps in Seoul, in an industrial complex in western Korea, and in a forest. Based on their collection, they came up with the following estimates...

In each cubic meter of air, there are between 1.6 million and 40 million viruses.

Given that we breathe roughly .01 cubic meters of air each minute, a simple calculation based on these results suggests we breathe in a few hundred thousand viruses every minute.

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Bonus Fact:

Viruses are by far the most abundant biological entities on Earth and they outnumber all the others put together. They infect all types of cellular life including animals, plants, bacteria and fungi.