Leon Blaustein, professor of ecology at the University of Haifa in Israel and his colleagues collected air samples above a pool of backswimmers and identified some of the volatile chemicals present.

以色列Haifa大学的Leon Blaustein教授及其同事，从水蜘蛛栖息的一片池塘上空收集了空气样本并检测出一些挥发性物质的存在。

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According to NPR, because the researchers only analyzed the samples for genetic signatures of different pathogens, they couldn't determine whether the bugs were alive, and potentially reproducing in the water, but there were no pool-related diseases reported in Atlanta during the summer the samples were gathered.

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