Ew! This is What Happens When You Flush the Toilet

Videos reveal an invisible plume of droplets, capable of packing infectious pathogens, shooting out ‘like a rocket’ and drifting to the ceiling

Wait until you see the two videos below. Credit: John Crimaldi, University of Colorado Boulder

When you flush a toilet with the lid up, water droplets too small to see—and potentially packed with infectious viruses or bacteria…