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Coronavirus:Patrick Pelloux advises against wearing a beard because the virus can stick to it

Come on gentlemen, it's time to find his baby face. Because "You have to shave “, this is the advice that the famous emergency doctor Patrick Pelloux gave this weekend on the set of BFM TV after a viewer asked him if the “ the virus can hold on a beard or a mustache when coughing or sneezing ? .

"Yes of course “, then replied the famous doctor who does not wish “not to make a campaign against beards and mustaches but anyway it was already recommended […] beards and mustaches are very dirty ". To the doctor to add that the virus can quite last “several hours” on it.

Men's beards contain more bacteria than dogs' coats

If the gentleman is resistant to getting rid of his facial hair, remind him of this Swiss study carried out in 2019 which indicates that men's beards contain more bacteria than dogs' coats.

To do this, beard (human) and hair (dog) samples were analyzed by the researchers, who then realized that the greatest number of bacteria was not where it was expected.

All of the bearded men were indeed carriers of a high quantity of microbes, whereas such a concentration of microbes was only found in twenty-three of the thirty dogs in the study. Seven of the men even had potentially harmful microbes, compared to four dogs. “On this basis, dogs can be considered cleaner than men with beards “, noted Andreas Gutzeit, director of the study. There you go...