One in six UK mobile phones are contaminated with faecal bacteria due to poor personal hygiene, scientists have found.Researchers said that 16% of the devices were contaminated with E coli, which can cause food poisoning, most probably because people fail to properly wash their hands after going to the toilet. The study by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Queen Mary, University of London, also found that Britons tend to lie about their personal hygiene.To read this report in The Guardian in full, see:
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One in six British mobile phones contains traces of E. coli because people are too lax about washing their hands, a study has found.More than nine in ten mobile phones are coated with some kind of bacteria, including E.coli, which was responsible for a number of deaths in Germany in June, and Staphylococcus aureus, one strain of which is better known as MRSA.
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