手机携带细菌量超马桶手柄18倍！

来源:英语生活时间:2018-12-15 点击：

爱思英语编者按：据英国每日邮报报道，手机在我们的生活中不可或缺，但你在看完这篇文章后可能永远也不想用手机了。有关检测表明，一个普通手机上所携带的有害细菌量是男厕所一个冲厕手柄所携带细菌量的18倍。一项对手机的研究分析发现，近四分之一的手机十分肮脏，所携带的细菌量高达可接受细菌安全值的十倍。更多信息请访问：http://www.24en.com/

They are pretty much essential, but you may want to ditch your mobile phone for ever after reading this.

The average handset carries 18 times more potentially harmful germs than a flush handle in a men"s toilet, tests have revealed.

An analysis of handsets found almost a quarter were so dirty that they had up to ten times an acceptable level of TVC bacteria.

One of the phones in the test had such high levels of bacteria it could have given its owner a serious stomach upset.

While TVC is not immediately harmful, elevated levels indicate poor personal hygiene and act as a breeding ground for other bugs.

The findings from a sample of 30 phones by Which? magazine suggest 14.7 million of the 63 million mobiles in use in the UK today could be potential health hazards.

Hygiene expert Jim Francis, who carried out the tests, said: "The levels of potentially harmful bacteria on one mobile were off the scale. That phone needs sterilising."

The most unhygienic phone had more than ten times the acceptable level of TVC and seven were above the threshold.

This worst handset also had 39 times the safe level of enterobacteria, a group of bacteria that live in the lower intestines of humans and animals and include bugs such as Salmonella.

It boasted 170 times the acceptable level of faecal coliforms, which are associated with human waste.

Other bacteria including food poisoning bugs e.coli and staphylococcus aureus were found on the phones but at safe levels.

Which? researcher Ceri Stanaway said: "Most phones didn"t have any immediately harmful bacteria that would make you sick straight away but they were grubbier than they could be.

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