Is Your Smartphone Making You Sick?
Posted on: 13/Aug/2015 9:55:51 AM
Would you believe it? The smart-phone that stays with you right from your bed, dining table, sofa, and the toilet carries 25000 harmful bacteria/germs per square inch.
Do you believe that only public toilets will be infested with bacteria/germs? Note this - a public toilet may carry around 1000 harmful disease creating bacteria/germs every square inch. In the houses with exclusive toilets, the number of bacteria/germs may be between 50 to 300 per square inch.
A latest research established that next to smartphones, reading devices such as iPad carry around 600 bacteria/germs per square inch.
Devices such as game controllers can carry 500 times more bacteria/germs than the public toilet.
On the computer keyboard, there are 300 times more bacteria/germs as compared to the public toilet. Keyboards may carry up to 3000 bacteria/germs per square inch whereas mouse may carry 1500.
Compared with the above data, it seems the only devices reasonable clean is the remote control. They may carry around 70 bacteria/germs per square inch.
These revelations caution that carrying cell-phones to all kinds of places and being sufficiently aware about hygiene may be an invitation to the onset of several new kinds of diseases.
