A recent study indicated that 95% of cellphones belonging to hospital staff were contaminated with at least one type of dangerous bacteria. Over 12% of them carried the deadly methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).Almost 35 percent carried two types of bugs, and more than 11 percent carried three or more different species of bacteria, the study found.
"These mobile phones could act as a reservoir of infection which may facilitate patient-to-patient transmission of bacteria in a hospital setting," the authors of the study warned.
In 2005, MRSA infected 94,000 people and killed 19,000 in the United States alone.
Hospital workers (supposedly) wash their hands a lot, and yet still their phones are crawling with nasties. Just imagine what kind of creepy crud your phone might be harboring.
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Dr. David Ross, ND, CNHP, AHG
it;'s a total bullshit - cellphones never can do it. at least for such short times
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