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littlemissmartypants

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Sun Jan 13, 2013, 09:06 PM Jan 2013

What germs are on your hands?



Up to half of all men and a quarter of women fail to wash their hands after they use the bathroom.
Right Handed people tend to wash their left hand more thoroughly than their right, and visa versa.
We have between 2 and 10 million bacteria between our finger tip and elbow.
Damp hands spread 1,000 times more germs than dry hands.
The number of germs on your fingertips doubles after you use the toilet.
Germs can stay alive on hands for up to three hours.
Millions of germs hide under watches and bracelets, and there could be as many germs under your ring as there are people in Europe!


http://www.sdhdidaho.org/comhealth/handwashing.php
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What germs are on your hands? (Original Post) littlemissmartypants Jan 2013 OP
All of them. Articles like this show just how inadequate American education is. But please, do wash Egalitarian Thug Jan 2013 #1
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