Anyone ever read this interesting article about germs?

[Xpred]

http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s1143577.htm

Pretty interesting if you ask me. I knew something like this before:

"The results were astonishing. In terms of bacteria per square inch, they found that the phone receiver was the filthiest - 25,000 (probably because many people can share the same phone). This was followed by the desktop at 21,000, the computer keyboard at 3,300 and the computer mouse at 1,700. The least contaminated surface was the toilet seat with only 49 bacteria per square inch - making it about 50 times cleaner than the desktop. Gerba says that, for bacteria, the "desk is really the laptop of luxury. They can feast all day from breakfast to lunch and even dinner."

But this...

"If you flush with the lid up, a polluted plume of bacteria and water vapour erupts out of the flushing toilet bowl. The polluted water particles float for a few hours around your bathroom before they all land. Some of them will land on your tooth brush. So if you flush with the lid up, you are probably brushing your teeth with toilet water."

Crazy, eh?

 

[miri]

The reason why those things are dirty is because they are never cleaned. While the bathroom seat is cleaned daily, imagine the bathroom door handle that has NEVER been cleaned before.

Why do they wonder why the toilet seat is cleaner? Maybe because it is cleaned on occasion. How many times have you cleaned your phone? Imagine a public phone that has never been cleaned before. Or that mouse at the internet cafe.

 

[Mojoed]

About the toothbrush thing...

Mythbusters tested this out. They put dozens of toothbrushes all over the house, and had some control ones too. After 30 days of normal bathroom use, all the toothbrushes tested positive for e coli, regardless of where they were placed.

I'm not worried about germs, that's what my immune system is for.

 

[themroc27]

wow

 

[Xpred]

Cool... mythbusters really rock, but damn.