Our Unique “Microbial Cloud”

We are all surrounded by millions of our own personal bacteria

The authors of a study say that if you walk into someone else’s “cloud”, it can “rain” bacteria on you and be absopbed into your lungs.

"...we could identify most of the occupants just by sampling their microbial cloud."

This shows how complicated it is to define what a “healthy” microbiome is.

If everyone’s is unique, we should look to other methods of answering this question.

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