Some Disgusting Facts About Your Mobile Phone

Mobile phone retailer Dial-a-Phone conducted the study taking swabs from everyday objects and analyzing the bacteria found on them. The shocking results found that there's more muck on our mobiles than the average door handle, keyboard, and bottom of a shoe or even a toilet seat.

The study found that without cleaning and disinfecting your mobile phone and keyboard on a regular basis, more bacteria could spread potentially causing illness.         

The research confirmed the presence of skin bacteria including staphylococcus aureus on the phone, keyboard, toilet seat and door handle. The shoe in contrast had bacteria from the soil and air.

Joanne Verran, Professor of Microbiology at Manchester Metropolitan University comments: "Mobile phones, like many everyday objects such a telephones and computer keyboards, harbor bacteria. However, being 'mobile', they are stored in bags or pockets, are handled frequently, and held close to the face. In other words, they come into contact with more parts of our body and a wider range of bacteria than toilet seats!"

"The phones contained more skin bacteria than the any other object; this could be due to the fact that this type of bacteria increases in high temperatures and our phones are perfect for breeding these germs as they're kept warm and cozy in our pockets, handbags and brief cases. These bacteria are toxic to humans, and can cause infections if they have the opportunity to enter the body."

A Dial-a-Phone spokesperson comments: "We take our phones everywhere, being in close contact with our mouths, hands and faces their bound to collect all sorts of nasty germs. The images make look scary but our advice to phone users is to ensure they clean them regularly with an antibacterial wipe!"

You now have permission to go EEEEKKKK!!!!!!

[via:  Symbian-Freak, PRWeb.com]

Comments

[Frank Koehntopp]

This is on top of my list of "things I'd rather not know" ;)

[Darla]

Lol... well isn't it important that the truth be made available?

[Tommi Vilkamo]

Heh :)

Luckily, mobile phone is a *personal* object, compared with toilet seats and door handles. That is, the bacteria in it is your own, and probably quite harmless to yourself. But I just lost quite a bit of my interest in the phones of other people...

[Darla]

@Tommi

I was thinking the same thing... so I'm surrounded in my own personal bacteria! Not that that sounds all that great... but you get what I'm saying.

[AJ]

This is so disturbing I don't even know where to begin. I'm just glad we don't share our cellphones with others. That might--just might--be even worse.

[Mimi Tan]

I know that cell phones can be very dirty, as it can be a breeding ground for worst types of bacteria including that of “STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS” which can cause illnesses ranging from pimples and boils to pneumonia and meningitis.
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