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Mobile phones and other touchscreen devices are proving excellent at spreading germs and viruses, a study has found.

The latest generation of mobile devices make virus and germ transition very easy, and since they are primarily in contact with the face and head are proving very effective at transmission to others.

"If you put virus on a surface, like an iPhone, about 30 percent of it will get on your fingertips," Timothy Julian, a Stanford University doctoral student who co-authored a study on the spread of viruses, told the Sacramento Bee.

"A fair amount of it may go from your fingers to your eyes, mouth or nose," the most likely routes of infection.

The research, which was published by the Journal of Applied Microbiology, found that sharing you phone, or letting someone else touch it, significantly increased your chances of getting sick.

"If you're sharing the device, then you're sharing your influenza with someone else who touches it," said Julian

In July Which? examined 30 of the most popular mobile devices and found that some handsets had 18 times more living bacteria on them than the average toilet flush and at least one was infected with possible fecal matter.

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:x :x :x :x :x :x :x :shit: :shit: :shit: :shit: :shit: :shit:

I don't have a touch screen cellphone. :P

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:x :x :x :x :x :x :x :shit: :shit: :shit: :shit: :shit: :shit:

I don't have a touch screen cellphone. :P

Read again.

Mobile phones and other touchscreen devices

It doesn't say mobile phones with touch screens.

Cheers ;)

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:lol: You'd better clean you hands when you got to the bathroom. (Especially if :shit: :lmao: )

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:lol: You'd better clean you hands when you got to the bathroom. (Especially if :shit: :lmao: )

use gloves for better protection.... :rofl:

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How about washing your phone with water. That'd surely remove the germs. :lol:

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How about washing your phone with water. That'd surely remove the germs. :lol:

the billionaires should to this, its like washing your $500 everyday or everytime they go to the bathroom... at least they are protected isnt it? :w00t:

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There's some special liquid that is used to clean LCD, LED, etc. screens that can be used to clean cellphones.

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umm.. i don't know..

that reminds me (again about keyboards).. what was the 'sticky keys' thing in windows again..? :rofl:

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