Writing in a research letter, experts said germ-covered fingers could introduce bacteria, viruses and fungi to the nose that could travel to the brain and cause an infection.
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The calls for more research were made in a letter published in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences. 'We propose more investigation to understand the association of nose picking with Alzheimer's disease in the form of case-control studies with larger sample populations.' The letter was by scientists at the Services Institute of Medical Sciences in Pakistan and the Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar.
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