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Kiss me not, my dear!

An intimate kiss transfers millions of bacteria

Researchers from Micropia museum and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) in the Netherlands studied 21 couples, asking them to fill out questionnaires on their kissing behaviour including their average intimate kiss frequency. They then took swab samples to investigate the composition of their oral microbiota on the tongue and in their saliva.