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You cannot escape poop bacteria
By Sara Chodosh
You may have heard theres poop bacteria getting sprayed all over peoples hands by bathroom hand dryers. But did you know theres poop bacteria everywhere!?
Thats right. While youve been freaking out over individual headlines suggesting that a tiny amount of fecal bacteria is lurking on your hands or faucets or what-have-you, those studies have been amassing into a whole body of research that shows pretty definitively that bacteria from our poop is absolutely everywhere. Heres a short list of all the places scientists have found poop bacteria:
On computer keyboards
In your kitchen sponge, on the kitchen drain, and on your kitchen sink faucet handles (By the way, this same study found that kitchens had more fecal bacteria than bathrooms! Toilet seats were actually one of the least contaminated spots in the whole house.)
All over your phone
In a fecal veneer on indoor climbing walls
Hanging out on grocery shopping carts
On your shoes (duh)
Inside all of your clothes, probably because you wash them with your underwearwhich contains a tenth of a gram (!!) of fecal bacteria per pair, on average
Surrounding you in every hotel room youve ever been in
Literally in the air you breathe
more
https://www.popsci.com/poop-is-everywhere?CMPID=ene041718#page-2
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,693 posts)so I guess I won't start worrying about it now.
samnsara
(17,622 posts)...any communal table service? ewwwwwww
Little Star
(17,055 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)after reading this I can't leave my house and I can't live in my house.