Just accept it: germs are all around you.
Your phone.
The good news is that if you have a phone with a touch screen, it's probably slightly less disgusting than a traditional phone with raised buttons: a recent study out of London found that 24% of traditional phones tested positive for bacteria that cause "skin rashes, respiratory disease, or food poisoning," while only 3% of touchscreen phones did. The bad news is that regardless of type, your phone would still probably make beautiful, revolting bacteria art when imprinted in a petri dish.
Via: images.apple.com
Doorknobs.
Pick one doorless room and stay in it. Studies show at least one third of all doorknobs of people with a cold are hanging onto that cold for them.
Via: files.tested.com
Your clothes.
You heard it from ABC news: don't do laundry. Charles Gerba, a microbiology professor, is quoted as saying, "If you wash a load of just underwear, there will be about 100 million E. coli in the wash water, and they can be transmitted to the next load of laundry." But how do you know what is an alarming number of E. coli? I mean, it sounds bad.
Via: ww1.prweb.com
Your (new!) toothbrush.
Not only is your regular, used toothbrush absolutely riddled with bacteria, your unopened brushes might be secretly nasty too: apparently, a 2011 study found that nearly half of unopened brushes had bacteria on them. So now what is there to look forward to about teeth brushing?
Via: hb-dentistry.com
