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U.S. Homes Losing Battle of the Germs

来源:WebMD Medical News
摘要:July14,2009--Yourhomeisloadedwithdisease-causinggerms,includingsomethatmigratefrombathrooms,anewstudyshows。ThestudybytheHygieneCouncilfoundthatAmericansandpeopleinsevenothercountriesarelosingthebattleofthebugs,mainlybecausewedon‘tcleanupwelle......

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July 14, 2009 -- Your home is loaded with disease-causing germs, including some that migrate from bathrooms, a new study shows.

The study by the Hygiene Council found that Americans and people in seven other countries are losing the battle of the bugs, mainly because we don't clean up well enough, or we don't wipe down the right stuff.

For example, in the U.S., television remote controls are a lot cleaner than kitchen taps or toilet handles, council member Philip M. Tierno Jr., MD, associate professor of microbiology and pathology at the New York University School of Medicine, tells WebMD.

The council was formed in 2006 as a disease-fighting initiative involving public health experts around the world. Sponsored by an educational grant from Reckitt Benckiser, maker of Lysol brand products, its goals are to formulate easy and practical recommendations for better hygiene.

The council sent teams of germ detectives armed with swabs into houses in the U.S., U.K, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Australia, South Africa, India, and Malaysia. The teams sent samples from the homes to labs for microscopic analysis.

The latest analysis found that:

In the eight countries checked this year:

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作者: 2009-7-16
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