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Health Related Forums => Health News and Events => Topic started by: Waxbaro! on May 08, 2008, 12:49:30 PM
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It turns out that your computer keyboard could put a host of potentially harmful bacteria -- including E. coli and staph -- quite literally at your fingertips.
Your keyboard may be dirtier than you think, according to a recent swab test by a U.K. microbiologist.
Sure, it may sound like a hypochondriac's excuse to stay away from the office. But a growing body of research suggests that computer mice and keyboards are, in fact, prime real estate for germs.
It's a phenomenon most recently illustrated by tests at a typical office environment in the United Kingdom. A consumer advocacy group commissioned the tests in which British microbiologist James Francis took a swab to 33 keyboards, a toilet seat and a toilet door handle at the publication's London office in January.
Francis then tested the swabs to see what nasty germs he managed to pick up. He found that four of the keyboards tested were potential health hazards -- and one had levels of germs five times higher than that found on the toilet seat.
Source: ABC News
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Ok, what is the solution?
Are we supposed to wear gloves?
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Don't worry, there will be infection-resistant keyboards, NHS already introduced 7,500 infection-resistant keyboards in hospitals across England as part of efforts to make hospitals cleaner and safer.
http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39214544,00.htm
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thanks for the link