For years, researchers have tracked the source of hospital outbreaks back to superbug-splashing sinks. For instance, researchers found that an outbreak in a Canadian hospital that spanned the years ...

Is your bathroom sink draining slowly... or starting to smell? 🤢 The culprit is likely lurking in your P-trap!. Tanja Babich ...

In experimental sinks, it took just seven days for germs to climb up from the P-trap.

Have your holiday guests left you with a clogged bathroom sink? Follow these instructions for clearing out the P-trap under your sink. Every plumbing fixture in your home should have a P-trap. Some ...

Sinks and P-traps are home to a surprising number of fungal organisms. Sinks and P-traps are home to a surprising number of fungal organisms, according research from the University of Reading. Five ...

During a nationwide outbreak of healthcare-associated infections of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria, an Israeli hospital traced repeated infections of patients in its intensive care unit (ICU) to an ...

Sinks and P-traps are home to a surprising number of fungal organisms, according research from the University of Reading. Five University of Reading undergraduate students, and a PhD student, tested ...