Germ-Filled Areas
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| 10/29/2009 |
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| When you think of dirty places or germs, most people visualize places like a toilet. Many people spend hours cleaning the bathroom, ridding it of germs. But germs don`t stick to just the bathroom. "They are on people`s boots when they come in the house," says Loretta Essler, Kenmare, ND. We asked a couple of shoppers at Marketplace Foods, `Where are some of the dirtiest places?` "Barns," says Tony Mertes, Butte,ND. "Toilets," says Fern Zavalney, Butte,ND. Forget the toilet seat, when it comes to dirty places the shopping cart has on average more than a million germs. "Yuck," says Essler. Shopping carts have been found to be home to things like blood, mucus, saliva, urine, even e-coli. "I would bet that," says Zavalney. Some supermarkets have started installing hand sanitizer stations around the store to help make your trip a little more germ-free. "I sometimes grab them," says Mertes. Marketplace Foods in Minot has a station so their customers can leave the germs in a wipe cloth and not take them home. "I think it`s smart," says Mertes. And being smart means playing it safe, keeping you from getting sick. Playgrounds and bus rails have been found to carry even more germs than a shopping cart. |
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