Posted on 11/19/2016 6:42:42 PM PST by jcon40
Probably the best reason to wash your hands regularly is that the world is covered in feces. New York City is particularly gross, and some of the most shared surfaces of this spend-friendly city are automated teller machines. Quite appropriately, the good scientists at New York University tested them for microbes.
The study, published in the journal mSphere, included a hundredsome samples from eight neighborhoods across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, ranging from midtown to Flushing to Inwood to Ozone Park.
“ATM surfaces, potentially retaining microbial signatures of human inhabitants … are interesting from both a biodiversity perspective and a public health perspective,” lead author NYU project scientist Holly M. Bik and her colleagues write. , They focused on neighborhoods with distinct population demographics, swabbing around for patterns. The goal was to add to the body of work on the “urban microbiome.”
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I’m really thinking about starting to wear gloves. I hate the way hand sanitizer makes my skin feel.
Urban Germ Fare
I’ve got to find a new pair of goatskin gloves, they were the best, and thin enough you could function without taking them off. I ruined the best ones I had doing shipping and receiving 20 years ago, and haven’t yet found a suitable replacement. Picky, ain’t I? ;)
NY turned blue after 1 term of HW Bush, along with many other states. At least we got Michigan, PA and Wisconsin back!
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