Sunday 29 March 2009

What has more virus and bacteria than a toilet seat?

Our regular office desk and its equipment such as phones and keyboards, according to a study (via Web Worker Daily):
A desk is capable of supporting 10 million microbes and the average office contains 20,961 microbes per square inch, according to research.

The key offenders are telephones, which harbour up to 25,127 microbes per square inch, keyboards 3,295 and computer mice 1,676.

By contrast, the average toilet seat contains 49 microbes per square inch, the survey showed.
I would suppose that also applies to our home and mobile phones and who knows what else! Just cleaned my laptop. Phew!

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