The thing that you held really close to your mouth and ear may be the one that will make you sick. A research made by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine which collaborates with Queen Mary, University of London found out that 1 out of 6 mobile phones is infected by E. coli. Escherichia coli or E. coli is a bacterium that may cause diseases like food poisoning, pneumonia, urinary tract infections and gastroenteritis.
This research was conducted by taking 400 samples from cell phones in 12 English cities and the result is truly terrifying. Even though 400 samples may be a little bit too low to represent all mobile phone users in the world, the result is really accurate. By saying that, this means that some traces of your own faeces may be present on your mobile phones. However, it must be pointed out here that most E. coli bacteria is not harmful to the body. Only a small type of E. coli bacteria is responsible for all the bad diseases.
Therefore, you must be more careful on where you put your mobile phones. Make sure that your mobile phones are covered with tissues if you ever need to put it around the toilet. Putting your phones on the toilet cover will be a no-no even though they look clean. Who knows how many millions E. coli bacteria are living on top of that toilet cover.
Washing your hand phones may not be practical but at least wash your hands after using the toilet. You may wash your hands using water only but it would be extra clean if it is accompanies with a soap. After the research made, the researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine came out with more reliable techniques to make sure that you come out of the toilet clean.
One of them will be using RFID tags to observe the condition of the bathroom. These RFID tags will help remind you whenever you forgot to wash your hands after using the toilet. This is still a basic thing that can be accomplished by the RFID tags. Further development of the RFID tags will include on tracking the cleanliness of your hands and detect any bad bacteria that are lingering on your skin. However, this technology will not be available in the meantime. For now, just make sure that you kept your mobile phones inside your pocket while you are in the toilet.
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