Watch Where You Put Your Hands
Top 10 dirtiest things you touch
1. Money – New York’s health commissioner found 135,000 bacteria by washing one bill
2. Light switch in a public place – 217 bacteria per square inch
3. Computer keyboard – A British consumer group found 4 out of 33 dirty enough to be considered a health hazard
4. Cell phone – A technological Petri dish for tens of thousands of germs
5. Toilet seat – 295 Bacteria per square inch
6. Shopping cart – Study from University of Arizona found carts have more bacteria, saliva and fecal matter than public telephones and bathrooms
7. Remote control – In hospitals and hotel rooms found to be contaminated with semen, urine and bacteria
8. Bathtub – Bacteria near drain is worse than bacteria in toilet
9. Kitchen sink – 500,000 per square inch
10. Kitchen sponge – Instead of wiping surfaces clean users really just transfer bacteria from one place to another. Did you know that in lab tests bachelors had the cleaner kitchens than families? They’re more likely to skip the act of wiping the germ filled sponge across the counter tops and tables.