Mobile phones are major carriers of bacteria: study
19 Jan 2015
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A new study in the UK has further confirmed what was already suspected previously – mobile phones are prime carriers of communicable diseases.
The study by students of the University of Surrey provides a deeper insight into how filthy mobile phones are – the levels of bacteria are ''pretty gross'', they said.
Bacteria use all sorts of things as vectors in order to transmit - insects, water, food, coughs and sneezes, or sexual contact.
Many of the phones showed the biggest and clearest blotch of bacteria growing around where the 'home' button was.
Most of the bacteria are harmless but disgusting. And some disease-carrying bacteria such as the Staphylococcus aureus have turned up in previous years when the university conducted the experiment.
