Stop blowing out the candles on your birthday cake!

[LadyStanley]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/07/29/blowing-out-candles-birthday-cake-germs/

It's unhealthy.

The study, entitled “Bacterial Transfer Associated with Blowing Out Candles on a Birthday Cake,†was published in the Journal of Food Research.
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After comparing the icing of cakes that were blown and not blown, researchers determined that blowing out candles resulted in 1400% more bacteria. Over 2000 moisture particles are released with each blow, each one “large enough to carry bacteria as well as viruses.â€

“The transfer of oral bacteria and other microorganisms from the respiratory tract of a person blowing out candles to food consumed by others is likely,†according to the study.

Suggested that one serves cupcakes instead.

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[WTFetus]

Don't exactly need PhDs to know respiratory droplets make you sick. The risk is still very minimal unless the person is sick. More gross than infectious, you could also scrape off the icing.

Neisseria? I'm not going to be near that person, let alone share a birthday cake.