Your Keyboard Can Make You Sick

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Reading about this made me nauseous. There is a new report that says your computer keyboard at work is harboring dangerous bacteria. E. Coli and Staph on your keyboard? Gross!

A consumer advocacy group in the United Kingdom asked microbiologist James Francis to test their keyboards. Francis swabbed 33 keyboards in the office. Four of them were potential health hazards. One keyboard had higher level of germs than a toilet seat tested in the same office. OMG!

The best defense against keyboard germs--WASH YOUR HANDS!!

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