You may want to dump your cell phone forever after reading this mobile phones are covered with up to 18 times more bacteria living on the pump handle in the men’s room, a new British study has found.
While not immediately harmful TCF, indicate high levels of personal hygiene and act as a breeding ground for insects. The study results suggest that 14.7 million of the 63 million mobile phones in use in the UK today could be potential health hazards.
The most unhygienic phone had more than ten times the acceptable level of TCF and seven were above the threshold. This phone also worst was 39 times the safe level of Enterobacteriaceae, a group of bacteria that live in the large intestine of humans and animals and include errors such as Salmonella.
It had 170 times the acceptable level of fecal coliform, which are associated with sewage. Other bacteria including food poisoning E. errors coli and Staphylococcus aureus were found on the phones, but at safe levels.
“Most phones have no immediate harmful bacteria make you sick immediately, but grubbier than they might be,” the Daily Mail quoted What? Ceri Stanaway investigator as saying.
“Insects can end up in the hands which is a breeding ground and passed back to your phone. They can be transferred back and forth and finally, you could catch something nasty.
“This shows how easy it is to get in contact with the bacteria. People go to toilet flushes as dirty to touch, but have fewer bacteria than phones.