There are certain places I feel it’s inappropriate to make a call from...
1 in 6? Those phones must belong to the Jihadis in Londinistan.
Anybody want to take a guess on the percentage of door handles with fecal bacteria on them? My guess is close to 100%.
Who will dare to sample the hands of the OWS protesters for fecal bacteria?
so when they say their phone is sh*t... they aren’t kidding
If true that is a really crappy finding.
This story was written by someone who doesn't understand the issue.
Somewhere around 25% of the billions of bacteria in our intestines are E. coli. Most strains are harmless and indeed essential. The varieties we hear of as killing people are not from human fecal contamination but rather from the gut of herbivores such as cattle or deer that has contaminated food. Human strains will mostly just have no effect.
However, because it is so common in the human intestines and can be easily tested for it is widely used as a tracer organism. IOW, if E. coli is present one can assume others of the many potential pathogens found in fecal material are also present. But the E. coli itself is not the problem.
This story was written by someone who doesn't understand the issue.
Somewhere around 25% of the billions of bacteria in our intestines are E. coli. Most strains are harmless and indeed essential. The varieties we hear of as killing people are not from human fecal contamination but rather from the gut of herbivores such as cattle or deer that has contaminated food. Human strains will mostly just have no effect.
However, because it is so common in the human intestines and can be easily tested for it is widely used as a tracer organism. IOW, if E. coli is present one can assume others of the many potential pathogens found in fecal material are also present. But the E. coli itself is not the problem.
I can not tell a lie.
It was me. I’ve been running around Europe smearing poop on everyones cell phone there I can get my hands on.
Yes I did it and I’m proud of it.
What Dr. Seuss would write if he were alive today: “Horton Hears a Poo”.
Just wipe your phone off people.
I can’t believe it. I’m mean, really. Wasn’t the Earth settled in part, by a large group of telephone sanitizers? /douglas adams
So are 100% of the handrails on escalators
That’s what immune systems are for.
Considering how reluctant the Brits seem to be to keep their teeth clean, it isn’t hard to imagine how much worse they are about the OTHER end of the system!
Potty mouth?
“The study was released to coincide with Global Handwashing Day on Oct. 15.”
Every day is Global Handwashing Day(or at least should be).
I believe the general level of hygiene has declined in the last 50-60 years. When I was in grammar school I never heard of anyone having lice. Now I regularly see treatments for sale, advertised etc.
It might have something to do with the Hippie movement, maybe so many illegals. Maybe the fact that so many diseases can be cured that people don’t have to be as careful.
My guess would be the 50’s was probably the cleanest period in our history.
Michael Berry is talking about this and had the clip of Anderson Cooper being told about it.