PROGRESSIVE PROHIBITIONIST RELIGION IDEA: A REGULARLY-UPDATED AND FULLY ANNOTATED AND AUTHORITATIVE ONLINE ANTHOLOGY OF MEDICAL-SCIENCE PUBLICATION ARTICLES, AND NEWSPAPER OR MAGAZINE ARTICLES, AND OTHER RELIABLE SOURCES, THAT EACH PROVIDE FACTUAL EVIDENCE ABOUT PUBLIC-HEALTH HAZARDS AND MEDICAL PROBLEMS AND DISEASES CAUSED OR POTENTIALLY CAUSED BY BEARDS AND MUSTACHES ON THE FACES OF MEN

This idea was prompted in part by factual research on behalf of my one-member (myself only, at present) Progressive Prohibitionist Religion that I pursued this Monday afternoon, June 19, 2017, inside a northwest Austin branch library of the Austin Public Library in Austin, Texas.

Particularly interesting was a March 13, 2015, online article about the medically harmful effects of facial hair that was published by the "Daily Mail" newspaper of London, England. That article was written by Maddlen Davies, and contained several quotes from medical experts in Great Britain who regard facial hair on men as a possible public health hazard.

In addition, a medical-journal article I found this Monday through online research at that same public library, noted that "...facial hair can increase bacterial shedding in (by) male HCWs (health care workers based in hospitals)."

That article was recently published in the "Journal of Hospital Infection". The title of the article was: "Bacterial ecology of hospital workers' facial hair: a cross-sectional study."

Another online source, "mangoboss.com", stated that a 1967 report by scientists at the U.S. Industrial Health and Safety Office, a report entitled "Microbiological Hazard of Bearded Men", announced that even after men's beards are washed with soap, "Beards retain microorganisms and toxins," and "enough toxins remained (after washing with soap) to infect anyone who came in contact with them."

That 1967 study was focused on whether bearded men put their families in danger by carrying bacteria into their own home that their own beards may have accumulated while those men were on duty at a workplace.

That study did not address the question of whether bearded men are themselves also at increased risk of medical infection resulting from their own facial hair.

Another online source on the subject of facial hair on men as a public health hazard can be found at "www.digitaljournal.com", I learned this Monday during my leisuretime visit to the Spicewood Springs (Road) branch library of the Austin Public Library in Austin, Texas.

One key word I plan to use in future research on this subject is: "Hypertrichosis". The online Wikipedia encyclopedia has online information under that subject heading, from what I learned this Monday at a public library, but I have not reviewed that Wikipedia account yet.

One additional source of information on this subject can be found at "microbiomedigest.com". 

The link to the article is: "https://microbiomedigest.com/2015/03/13/the-beard-microbiome".

That online source refers, among other things, to a recent study in Albuquerque,  New Mexico, which found that particles of feces or manure were found on beards of men studied in that state capital city of the U.S. state of New Mexico.