January
24, 2005:
Where the Germs Are
Microbiologist
Dr. Bob Bogosian
www.DrGerms.com |
Mike Carruthers:
If you want to make sure you don’t get sick you have to know how
it is people do get sick. Dr.
Bob Bogosian:
We know that 85% of all the infections you get, you pick up
with your hands. If you think about all the places your hands
will be today, they’ll be in some pretty nasty places.
Microbiologist
Dr. Bob Bogosian…
And you
do touch your mouth, nose, eyes, and ears, one to three times
every five minutes. Just watch the people around you. And, when
you do that, you introduce bacteria and viruses in your body
that may cause you to become sick.
There
are some nasty germs in places your probably don’t think about.
We’ve
been around culturing things for years, and one of the things
that we’ve found that are really nasty for example are ATM keypads.
They never seem to clean them. So many people touch them. We
find a lot of fecal bacteria, believe it or not, on ATM keypads.
Theatre
movie seats are really nasty. They never seem to clean those.
Doorknobs,
water fountains, paper money, shopping carts, are all teaming
with germs. So you have to wash your hands frequently. But,
Bob says, airplanes are the worst. And you know how people are
always getting sick after they fly.
Yeah,
and you want to know something? Everybody says it’s the air,
and it’s not the air. We’ve cultured the air in airplanes, and
there is very little microbiological material - you know, bacteria
and viruses - in the air it’s all on the surfaces.
Think
about it - plane lands, nobody disinfects the tray tables, nobody
disinfects the seat backs. You’re in an enclosed environment
for a long period of time, and you’re going to get sick.
You can
link to Dr. Bob’s website
from ours: somethingyoushouldknow.net. I’m Mike Carruthers,
and that’s Something You Should Know.
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