June 13, 2014

The Medical Minute: Are cellphones really covered in germs?



A quick Google search for “mobile device” and “germs” lists pages of reports about how your smart phone is likely dirtier than a toilet seat and how you’d be terrified if you knew all the germs and bacteria it collects in a single day.

That’s to say nothing of the tablets and touch screens you use everywhere from the gas pump to the grocery checkout.