The Air You Breathe Is Laced With Dog Poop Bacteria  Earlier
this week we learned that dogs are good for your respiratory
system because they can smell your lung cancer. But are dogs
also maybe bad for your lungs, because they manufacture poop
that's loaded with airborne bacteria?  Well, the team of
scientists who have been studying the bacteria say "there may be
no health affects at all" from inhaling air that's chock full of
them, so there's your official answer. So just relax and take a
deep breath.  The scientists detected the possibly harmless
(though maybe not!) poop-germs in air samples from Detroit,
Chicago, Cleveland, and Mayville, Wisconsin. According to their
findings, the air in Detroit, America's favorite hard-boned,
old-school urban hellhole, was the most bacteria-saturated of
all, the poor thing. Is Detroit's problem so severe because
stray dogs have replaced/eaten all the human inhabitants? No,
apparently:  It's not necessarily that Detroit has more dogs
than other places, although the study n