Ten seconds of liplock, a kiss, especially a long, passionate one, can translate into 80 million germs moving from one person to the other, Dutch researchers said. "Two people who smooch a bunch of times each day will end up sharing similar germs," study author Remco Kort from TNO's Microbiology and Systems Biology department in the Netherlands said, according to the HealthDay News Monday (local time). The more a couple kiss, the more similar they are, Kort said. The study was published in the journal Microbiome.
Ten seconds of liplock, a kiss, especially a long, passionate one, can translate into 80 million germs moving from one person to the other, Dutch researchers said. "Two people who smooch a bunch of times each day will end up sharing similar germs," study author Remco Kort from TNO's Microbiology and Systems Biology department in the Netherlands said, according to the HealthDay News Monday (local time). The more a couple kiss, the more similar they are, Kort said. The study was published in the journal Microbiome.