Talking dirty

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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Environmentally yours

As I've said much too often, it's a dangerous world we've created for ourselves.

• The USDA has issued a massive recall of domestic beef — 143 million pounds of it. That's enough meat to make two hamburgers for every man, woman and child in the United States. The meat was produced by a company who was allegedly using sick and dying cattle as a meat source. The company has also been accused of inhumane treatment of the animals.


• An Israeli study published recently in The American Journal of Epidemiology indicates that long-term, heavy users of cell phones increase their risk of cancer dramatically.


• A recent study presented to the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows that once the genetic structure of sperm is damaged by environmental toxins, the effects can be passed down for generations. The study used rats who were injected with a known toxin which causes damage and overgrowth of the prostate, infertility and kidney problems. The negative effects were still present in the fourth generation.

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