Study: Bathroom Hand Dryers Suck in Fecal Bacteria and Blow It on Hands

Study: Bathroom Hand Dryers Suck in Fecal Bacteria and Blow It on Hands
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Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
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A study discovered that hand dryers in public bathrooms blew bacteria onto people’s hands.

The report, published in the Applied and Environmental Microbiology Journal, said that scientists put data-gathering plates under hand dryers at 36 bathrooms around the University of Connecticut’s campus.
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