You almost inevitably touch common fomites all day long at work or in school. Can you go through the day without coming in contact with door knobs, light switches, pens and pencils, buttons on the coffee maker, desktop surfaces, computer keyboards, etc. etc. etc.? Researchers studying the spread of germs in office environments have sprayed a doorknob with harmless tracker germs and found that they managed to migrate to 60% of the surfaces of other fomites in the office within two hours.
Just imagine what’s on the money in your wallet.
scary results indeed!