Study shows 96% of hospital workers' phones are contaminated
Have a friend who works in a hospital? Better
think twice about using his or her cellphone next time you're kicking it; a study conducted at the Craigavon Area
Hospital Group Trust in Northern Ireland has shown that hospital workers' cellphones often carry industrial strength
pathogens, including the deadly MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphyloccus aureus). As many as 96% of the phones they
tested, in fact, were apparently bacterially contaminated. If Northern Irish hospitals are any benchmark of sterility,
makes you wonder why hospital employees aren't themselves fighting infections if so many of their phones are carrying
such bacteria, but either way it looks like maybe the Koreans are right after all with the incessant silver-nano
coating and those phone-sterilization
procedures.
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