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Talk about going viral: Touch-screen devices harbor germs
by Bobby Caina Calvan
Researchers: Mobile phones hold 18 times more bacteria than a restroom flush handle.
A squeeze, a flick, a touch ? but keep those grimy, germ-infested hands off that iPhone. Who knows where those fingers have been?
Personal touch-screen devices ? iPads, BlackBerrys and Droids ? are now seemingly everywhere, potentially harboring the germs and viruses that turn voices raspy and send noses running.
Want to peek at a digital snapshot, a friend's Facebook status or to show off the latest YouTube video? Best to just look, not touch ? or risk going viral yourself.
"If you're sharing the device, then you're sharing your influenza with someone else who touches it," said Timothy Julian, a Stanford University doctoral student who co-authored a study on the spread of viruses. . . .
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/10/14/310...#ixzz12RGtz62u
by Bobby Caina Calvan
Researchers: Mobile phones hold 18 times more bacteria than a restroom flush handle.
A squeeze, a flick, a touch ? but keep those grimy, germ-infested hands off that iPhone. Who knows where those fingers have been?
Personal touch-screen devices ? iPads, BlackBerrys and Droids ? are now seemingly everywhere, potentially harboring the germs and viruses that turn voices raspy and send noses running.
Want to peek at a digital snapshot, a friend's Facebook status or to show off the latest YouTube video? Best to just look, not touch ? or risk going viral yourself.
"If you're sharing the device, then you're sharing your influenza with someone else who touches it," said Timothy Julian, a Stanford University doctoral student who co-authored a study on the spread of viruses. . . .
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/10/14/310...#ixzz12RGtz62u