research at three hospitals in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, compared the amounts of bacteria living on 120 elevator
buttons and 96 toilet surfaces, guess which had the
most bacteria living on them? the elevator buttons won hands
down, they were much dirtier than the toilet surfaces, the prevalence of
colonization with bacteria of elevator buttons was 61%, on the toilets, it was
43%,
the study
was conducted by three physicians and reported in OpenMedicine, Vol 8, No 3 (2014), a lab technician—blinded to the source
of the samples and purpose of the study—then examined them, so remember if
this study is anything to go by when visiting hospitals get some one else
to operate the elevator buttons! but I have just had a chilling
thought, if a hospital can not keep its elevators cleaner than
it's bathrooms what about the elevators in hotels and the office where you work, no
wait, worse still just think how unhygienic the buttons may be in a public car park!
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