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| Can Nose Picking Really Cause Alzheimer's?
While a team of researchers did confirm that a certain bacteria can enter the brain through the nose and "set off pathologies that look like Alzheimer's disease," they performed their work on mice. Picking one's nose may pose a risk to one's health greater that accidentally causing a nosebleed, as this activity can potentially result in increased risk of Alzheimer's disease, a study published in the Scientific Reports journal earlier this year suggests. The author of the research in question discovered that bacteria Chlamydia pneumonia can enter the central nervous system of mice through the olfactory nerve. "We're the first to show that Chlamydia pneumoniae can go directly up the nose and into the brain where it can set off pathologies that look like Alzheimer's disease," said Professor St. John, head of the Clem Jones Centre for Neurobiology and Stem Cell Research and co-author of the study, said in a press release by the Griffith University. "We saw this happen in a mouse model, and