Tag: swabs
Health hazard: That’s why cotton swabs don’t belong in the ear
Clean your ears with a cotton swab? That’s not a good idea. We explain what can happen – and what alternatives there are. Clean your ears with a cotton swab?…
Sonja Engelbrecht case: Search for murderers in Kipfenberg with cotton swabs – Munich
The Munich criminal police are not keeping the Sonja Engelbrecht case on file. On the contrary: 29 years after the initially untraceable disappearance and – as we now know –…
Goodbye swabs? To detect viruses, a professor uses used tissues
It is an instrument of torture that one would have liked never to know. But here it is, the Covid-19 pandemic has been there and we had to resolve to…
Corona test: saliva sample more accurate than nasal swabs
Anyone who becomes infected with Covid-19 can pass on the disease even before symptoms appear. Only a test can then find out whether someone carries the virus. And it obviously…