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Woman living with seven-year infection from ex-boyfriend’s foul fart
Author of the article:Denette Wilford
Published May 29, 2025 • Last updated 2 days ago • 2 minute read

Christine Connell, who claims ex-boyfriends fart from seven years ago gave her E.coli, resulting in a persistent sinus infection.
Christine Connell, who claims ex-boyfriends fart from seven years ago gave her E.coli, resulting in a persistent sinus infection. Photo by Christine Connell /Instagram
A woman revealed how she has suffered from a chronic sinus infection for years after her ex-boyfriend farted at her.


Christine Connell said in a recent TikTok video that has amassed more than 441,000 views that doctors have long been baffled by the cause of the persistent infection, and tests up to now have turned up nothing.

But culture samples taken from her nose determined she had E. coli — and it’s all thanks to her gassy ex.

She joked that her ex, who she dated about seven years ago, got “the best possible breakup revenge that anyone could ever get.”

The travel content creator went on to say that “he farted terribly” while they were staying in a hotel after she had surgery, and it was so funky she “couldn’t breathe.”

But after swabs were recently taken from her sinuses, E. coli was found.

“You usually don’t get E.coli in your sinuses because E. coli is from poop,” Connell continued.

“So, how does that get in your sinuses — unless you have a boyfriend who farts disgustingly and you are forced to inhale it because you are immobile after ankle surgery.”



Connell detailed in another video that she was already in bed when her naked ex, who was standing beside the bed, turned his butt toward her and let it rip.

“That is when the fart happened. I’ve never, ever, ever smelled anything that compares to that,” she said, clarifying that he didn’t gas her on purpose — he just happened to fart in her direction on his way to bed and it got her.

E. coli are bacteria found in the intestines of some animals, and can be found in their feces, according to Health Canada.

Most strains of E. coli are harmless and even beneficial, helping with digestion, but some strains can cause illness, including diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and headaches.


Nowhere does it mention sinuses so Connell appears to be a special case, admitting in one video that “it’s definitely rare.”


Connell theorized that because she was recovering from ankle surgery, her immune system was “focused on healing that,” and if she was otherwise healthy, it might not have happened.

In updates to fascinated commenters’ questions, Connell said she was also tested to see if she is immunocompromised (which she is not) and if there were any other symptoms (she does not).

But in another video, Connell recounted how she was travelling with a friend who, as a joke, “farted in my face.”



Soon after, she developed pink eye, something she hadn’t had since she was a kid.

“I can’t think of how I would have gotten it besides my friend farting in my face,” Connell mused.

“So maybe I’m just susceptible to E. coli, which is weird, but again, I don’t have any immune issues according to tests so, I don’t know.”
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Woman living with seven-year infection from ex-boyfriend’s foul fart
Author of the article:Denette Wilford
Published May 29, 2025 • Last updated 2 days ago • 2 minute read

Christine Connell, who claims ex-boyfriends fart from seven years ago gave her E.coli, resulting in a persistent sinus infection.
Christine Connell, who claims ex-boyfriends fart from seven years ago gave her E.coli, resulting in a persistent sinus infection. Photo by Christine Connell /Instagram
A woman revealed how she has suffered from a chronic sinus infection for years after her ex-boyfriend farted at her.


Christine Connell said in a recent TikTok video that has amassed more than 441,000 views that doctors have long been baffled by the cause of the persistent infection, and tests up to now have turned up nothing.

But culture samples taken from her nose determined she had E. coli — and it’s all thanks to her gassy ex.

She joked that her ex, who she dated about seven years ago, got “the best possible breakup revenge that anyone could ever get.”

The travel content creator went on to say that “he farted terribly” while they were staying in a hotel after she had surgery, and it was so funky she “couldn’t breathe.”

But after swabs were recently taken from her sinuses, E. coli was found.

“You usually don’t get E.coli in your sinuses because E. coli is from poop,” Connell continued.

“So, how does that get in your sinuses — unless you have a boyfriend who farts disgustingly and you are forced to inhale it because you are immobile after ankle surgery.”



Connell detailed in another video that she was already in bed when her naked ex, who was standing beside the bed, turned his butt toward her and let it rip.

“That is when the fart happened. I’ve never, ever, ever smelled anything that compares to that,” she said, clarifying that he didn’t gas her on purpose — he just happened to fart in her direction on his way to bed and it got her.

E. coli are bacteria found in the intestines of some animals, and can be found in their feces, according to Health Canada.

Most strains of E. coli are harmless and even beneficial, helping with digestion, but some strains can cause illness, including diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and headaches.


Nowhere does it mention sinuses so Connell appears to be a special case, admitting in one video that “it’s definitely rare.”


Connell theorized that because she was recovering from ankle surgery, her immune system was “focused on healing that,” and if she was otherwise healthy, it might not have happened.

In updates to fascinated commenters’ questions, Connell said she was also tested to see if she is immunocompromised (which she is not) and if there were any other symptoms (she does not).

But in another video, Connell recounted how she was travelling with a friend who, as a joke, “farted in my face.”



Soon after, she developed pink eye, something she hadn’t had since she was a kid.

“I can’t think of how I would have gotten it besides my friend farting in my face,” Connell mused.

“So maybe I’m just susceptible to E. coli, which is weird, but again, I don’t have any immune issues according to tests so, I don’t know.”
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what happened to her stinks. perhaps she should invest in gas masks. ;)
 

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Sicily’s Mount Etna erupts in fiery show of smoke and ash
It was the 14th eruptive phase in recent months

Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Published Jun 02, 2025 • 1 minute read

Smoke rises from the crater of the Etna volcano as it erupts, on Mount Etna near Catania on June 2, 2025.
Smoke rises from the crater of the Etna volcano as it erupts, on Mount Etna near Catania on June 2, 2025. Photo by GIUSEPPE DISTEFANO /AFP
MILAN — Sicily’s Mount Etna put on a fiery show Monday, sending a cloud of smoke and ash several kilometers into the air, but officials said the activity posed no danger to the population.


The level of alert due to the volcanic activity was raised at the Catania airport, but no immediate interruptions were reported. An official update declared the ash cloud emission had ended by the afternoon.

Italy’s INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology said the spectacle on Europe’s most active volcano was caused when part of the southeast crater collapsed, resulting in hot lava flows. It was the 14th eruptive phase in recent months.

The area of danger was confined to the summit of Etna, which was closed to tourists as a precaution, according to Stefano Branca, an INGV official in Catania.

Sicily’s president, Renato Schifani, said lava flows emitted in the eruption had not passed the natural containment area, “and posed no danger to the population.”

The event was captured in video and photos that went viral on social media. Tremors from the eruption were widely felt in the towns and villages on Mount Etna’s flanks, Italian media reported.

Video showed tourists running along a path on the flank of the vast volcano with smoke billowing some distance in the background. Excursions are popular on Etna, which is some 3,300 meters (nearly 11,000 feet) high, with a surface area of some 1,200 square kilometers (about 460 square miles.)
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Long-running experiment finds tiny particle is still acting weird: 'Huge feat in precision'
The mysterious particles called muons are considered heavier cousins to electrons

Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Adithi Ramakrishnan
Published Jun 03, 2025 • Last updated 16 hours ago • 2 minute read

This image provided by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory shows the ring-shaped track that scientists used to study tiny particles called muons, July 20, 2023 in Batavia, Ill.
This image provided by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory shows the ring-shaped track that scientists used to study tiny particles called muons, July 20, 2023 in Batavia, Ill. Photo by Ryan Posteland/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory /AP
NEW YORK — Final results from a long-running U.S.-based experiment announced Tuesday show a tiny particle continues to act strangely — but that’s still good news for the laws of physics as we know them.


“This experiment is a huge feat in precision,” said Tova Holmes, an experimental physicist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville who is not part of the collaboration.


The mysterious particles called muons are considered heavier cousins to electrons. They wobble like a top when inside a magnetic field, and scientists are studying that motion to see if it lines up with the foundational rulebook of physics called the Standard Model.

Experiments in the 1960s and 1970s seemed to indicate all was well. But tests at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the late 1990s and early 2000s produced something unexpected: the muons weren’t behaving like they should.

Decades later, an international collaboration of scientists decided to rerun the experiments with an even higher degree of precision. The team raced muons around a magnetic, ring-shaped track _ the same one used in Brookhaven’s experiment — and studied their signature wiggle at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago.


The first two sets of results — unveiled in 2021 and 2023 _ seemed to confirm the muons’ weird behavior, prompting theoretical physicists to try to reconcile the new measurements with the Standard Model.

Now, the group has completed the experiment and released a measurement of the muon’s wobble that agrees with what they found before, using more than double the amount of data compared to 2023. They submitted their results to the journal Physical Review Letters.

That said, it’s not yet closing time for our most basic understanding of what’s holding the universe together. While the muons raced around their track, other scientists found a way to more closely reconcile their behavior with the Standard Model with the help of supercomputers.


There’s still more work to be done as researchers continue to put their heads together and future experiments take a stab at measuring the muon wobble — including one at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex that’s expected to start near the end of the decade. Scientists also are still analyzing the final muon data to see if they can glean information about other mysterious entities like dark matter.

“This measurement will remain a benchmark … for many years to come,” said Marco Incagli with the National Institute for Nuclear Physics in Italy.

By wrangling muons, scientists are striving to answer fundamental questions that have long puzzled humanity, said Peter Winter with Argonne National Laboratory.

“Aren’t we all curious to understand how the universe works?” said Winter.