Citizen scientists help infectious bacteria researchers

Monday, June 5, 2017 - 10:12 in Health & Medicine

A novel method for assessing human/virus interactions in the natural environment has now been developed using citizen scientists wearing boot socks over their shoes during walks in the countryside. In the process, they found that slightly less than half of the socks were positive for the infectious disease, Campylobacter.

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