Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet'

JediKnut

5-2-2008 1:29 AM

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					Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet'
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Consumer group Which? said tests at its London offices found equipment carrying bugs that could cause food poisoning. 
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Out of 33 keyboards swabbed, four were regarded as a potential health hazard and one harboured five times more germs than one of the office's toilet seats.
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Microbiologist Dr Peter Wilson said a keyboard was often "a reflection of what is in your nose and in your gut".
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During the Which? tests in January this year, a microbiologist deemed one of the office's keyboards to be so dirty he ordered it to be removed, quarantined and cleaned. 
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It had 150 times the recommended limit for bacteria - five times as filthy as a lavatory seat tested at the same time, the research found.</P></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://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7377002.stm"><DIV>
They also found that, compared to men, on average women have three to four times the amount of germs in, on and around their work area.
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keyboard, hygiene, bacteria, dirt

JediKnut says:

Wow! This is just dirty! I hate it when people eat at their desks... more so if they don't wash their hands after eating, or eat oily/fried stuff while typing... Just disgusting!

What's interesting though, is that the study says "compared to men, on average women have three to four times the amount of germs in, on and around their work area". ! Who'd ever think that possible!? heh

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