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Allison Janse:
A lot of people think that the bathroom in their home is the germiest thing and again that the toilet is the germiest thing. It surprises them to know that their sink has 200 times more bacteria in it than the toilet.

Allison Janse, co-author of the book, The Germ Freak’s Guide To Outwitting Colds & Flu…

People prepare a lot of raw meat in their sink, which has e.coli, and salmonella in it and they don’t disinfect the sink. So, then they drop something in it and think ok, I’ll just give it a quick rinse but you really should just send that sucker down the garbage disposal unless you’ve disinfected the sink.

Allison’s co-author tested desktops in a corporation for germs…

And found that the desktop had 20 thousand germs per square inch as opposed to a toilet lid that only had 49. And I think it’s because we walk around and the average adult touches all these things at work and then you bring them back and touch your desk and you don’t watch your hands. So, just disinfecting your desktop, your phone- the phone receiver has 25 thousand germs per square inch- and your computer keyboard, which has 3 thousand- and just by doing that once a day you can kill 99% of the germs.

If you stay in hotels you likely know by now to avoid that hotel bedspread but that’s not the only place where the germs are.

The TV remote, the telephone and the refrigerator door handle, those are the germiest things in a typical hotel.

At somethingyoushouldknow.net, I’m Mike Carruthers and that’s Something You Should Know.