No, Your Beard Is Not Full of Poop

You may have seen it in the news: Beards are filthy.

So filthy, in fact, that they have more poop bacteria than toilet seats.

Put down the razor!

That doesnt mean what you think it does.

colilikeO157:H7) find their way in.

You cant keep every last poop germ in the bathroom, no matterhow hard you try.

So what about the study on those poopy beards?

(Revealing germs in allegedly surprising places is a time-honored pastime of TV news shows.)

Beards are, however, fairly clean.

(In fact, they werelesslikely to carry certain potentially disease-causing bacteria.)

Spoiler: chickens were involved.

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