From: THE MEDICAL NEWS
According to research for a UK consumer group mobile phones can
harbor 18 times more living bacteria than a lavatory seat. For the
study a hygiene expert swabbed and analysed 30 handsets and found
seven had high levels of environmental bacteria.
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