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I noticed at stores and various other places that they are always cleaning and cleaning the keypads on debit card readers, the carts, and everything they can clean. They are even cleaning the door handles at my office twice a day. MY option is that with all this cleaning you are killing off good bacteria and our immune systems are going to get really weak if we keep cleaning like this. Please prove me wrong if need be. Thanks!

The holidays are upon us and for many that means family time in the kitchen preparing delicious baked goods and maybe even licking the spoon before the cookies go into the oven. So the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put out a warning this week to, “Say No To Raw Dough!” Dr. Todd Ellerin -- who admits he doesn’t bake -- said it’s the raw flour and uncooked eggs that can make us sick. Ellerin warned that “complications of this type of E. coli can include bloody diarrhea, need for prolonged hospitalization, and kidney failure, breakdown of red...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – The southbound lanes of Interstate 465 near Fall Creek Road are back open after a semi-trailer carrying 29,000 pounds of cookie dough caught on fire Tuesday morning. The southbound lanes reopened around 2 p.m. They had been closed since 3:30 a.m. Indiana State Police said the truck driver is fine. They said the driver unhooked the trailer and got the truck away just in time. INDOT said the bridge inspection passed at southbound Shadeland and I-465. There is no structural damage to the bridge. Slick residue from the cookie dough was left behind after the crash. Causing...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued an order that millions of Americans will likely find impossible to carry out: stop eating raw cookie dough. “Avoid raw or partially cooked eggs or foods containing raw eggs, such as cookie dough,” USDA advised in an email over the weekend. cookie1 Carrying out that simple 15-word recommendation would radically change millions of lives, from families who routinely bake cookies and invite the kids to scoop batter out of the bowl, to people who scarf down pre-packaged cookie dough, to everyone who eats cookie dough found in ice cream. Simply put, it’s not...

-excerpt- ... the culprit of a 2009 multi-state E. coli outbreak was none other than the ready-to-bake prepackaged cookie dough found in most grocery stores. At the time of the outbreak, 77 people from 30 states became ill from the bad batter. About half of those people got so sick they had to be hospitalized. After a thorough investigation, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control still have yet to fully pinpoint the ingredient in the cookie dough that caused the outbreak, but CDC study author Dr. Karen Neil said researchers believe the problem was in the flour. Raw flour...

LAS VEGAS -- In Room 519 of Kindred Hospital, Linda Rivera can no longer speak. Her mute state, punctuated only by groans, is the latest downturn in the swift collapse of her health that began in May when she curled up on her living room couch and nonchalantly ate several spoonfuls of the Nestlé cookie dough her family had been consuming for years. Federal health officials believe she is among 80 people in 31 states sickened by cookie dough contaminated with a deadly bacteria, E. coli O157:H7. The impact of the infection has been especially severe for Rivera and nine...

Ruben Studdard, winner of "American Idol." KnoxNews   'Idol' winner eats well at home Weight of 360 pounds due to mom's cookingBy LEIGH ANNE MONITOR, Scripps Howard News ServiceMay 25, 2003When "American Idol" winner Ruben Studdard was a little boy, his mama cooked foods that would help make him grow into a singing sensation. It's likely no one guessed as much back then, but a few specialty Ruben Studdard dishes are oh-so-famous - around mom Emily Studdard's kitchen table in Winewood, Ala. Ruben, 24, the city's tie to the Fox show "American Idol," loves his mama's chicken tetrazzini, her...