Mobile phones more dirty than toilets
April 5, 2009 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Mobile Monitor
Apparently, my mobile phone (a Nokia E71) is infested with more germs compared to a friend’s toilet. Yep, and this comes as no surprise, ladies and gentlemen. Dr. Gerba — the world famous microbiologist who scanned Tyra Banks’ underwear — came over to a friend’s house to do some germ swiping. The good doctor had a special machine called an ATP Luminometer that read swatches to determine how much germs resided in a specific area.
Lo and behold, my Nokia E71 had more germs than my friend’s bathroom sink and toilet! But wait ladies and gentlemen, before you think that I “talk dirty” it actually must be said that it isn’t surprising to find mobile phones to be more contagious than our bathrooms. We disinfect our toilets everyday but do we apply the same diligence to our mobile phones? Apparently not.
So what I learned from this fun get together — your portable gadgets are hives for germs because we take them everywhere we go, we talk into them, we rub them on our hands, our pockets and place them on our desks.
Disinfect your mobile phones with alcohol on cotton buds once in a while!
