Public toilets - not as contaminated as you think.


	Public toilets - not as contaminated as you think.

coconutshell

3-8-2007 1:21 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c1a17dc6-0789-43d4-933b-2e37d7aa08b4/4A9B220D-45EF-4646-8F35-7A0ECEC2A14E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/health/06real.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1173283313-X%2BzfnvLqoUGhpbQ5ikKEnA&oref=slogin" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/health/06real.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1173283313-X%2BzfnvLqoUGhpbQ5ikKEnA&oref=slogin" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/health/06real.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1173283313-X%2BzfnvLqoUGhpbQ5ikKEnA&oref=slogin">They are widely considered the most bacteria-laden places around. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/health/06real.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1173283313-X%2BzfnvLqoUGhpbQ5ikKEnA&oref=slogin">A team of scientists spent four years collecting nearly 1,100 samples at places like airports, restaurants, offices and bathrooms in four American cities. The scientists looked specifically for levels of bacteria as well as biological markers that indicated the presence of things like sweat, hemoglobin and urea.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/health/06real.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1173283313-X%2BzfnvLqoUGhpbQ5ikKEnA&oref=slogin"> The most frequently contaminated areas were playgrounds and day care centers, with 46 percent showing high levels of contamination. Public restroom surfaces ranked far behind, at 25 percent, just ahead of public transportation handrails and armrests (in buses, for example) and shopping cart handles (about 21 percent each). Not far behind that were escalator handrails (19 percent), vending machine buttons (14 percent) and public phones (13 percent).</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/health/06real.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1173283313-X%2BzfnvLqoUGhpbQ5ikKEnA&oref=slogin">Most have found that the risk of illness from these sources is low, and that washing your hands with soap and water can reduce that risk by about 50 percent.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4A9B220D-45EF-4646-8F35-7A0ECEC2A14E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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