[Sherman Logan]

16 percent of cellphones harbored E. coli bacteria, which is found in feces and can cause serious illness.

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.

[Sherman Logan]

Sorry bout the double post. Don’t know how that happened.

[rose]

The problem is washing your hands. I wash my hands continually, from bathroom to kitchen. While cooking am cleaning hands and counter top many, many times during preparation and serving.
Tis amazing how many people use public restrooms, leave w/out washing hands.