If you already had a reluctance to hold a handle or ring the bell, it will be even worse now. Stop right away and prepare for the hand through the sleeve method.<\/p>\n
Scientists have been inspecting the types of and numbers of germs that commuters using the tube are passing to each other. It’s not good if this worry is your ‘thing’.<\/p>\n
A commuter taking part int the Coldzyme commissioned research went through the underground system wearing a white glove, touching chip and pin pads, handrails and using the grab handles utilised during a typical journey.<\/p>\n
Dr Jacob Malone from the University for East Anglia and the John Innes Centre analysed the glove, discovering a vomit inducing mix of nasty bacteria and fungi.<\/p>\n
Bacteria from the Staphylococcus species, including S. aureus, Pseudomonas species, Escherichia coli and Salmonella were all found, including spores of fungi which float around in the air.<\/p>\n
The concoctions discovered cause problems ranging from minor skin infections through to respiratory illness and food poisoning.<\/p>\n
Dr Malone said that the amount found was ‘totally normal’ for sets of surfaces that people touch on a daily basis and there was no real cause for alarm.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThe range of bacterial species we isolated was quite large, with many different species, and many shapes, sizes and colours of colonies present.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bacterial colonies we see on the plates only represent a tiny subset of the different species that were likely to be present in each case, as the vast majority of bacterial species cannot be grown up in the lab.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we found was totally normal for any set of surfaces that come into contact with people daily.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe whole world is teeming with bacteria and fungi, and this is a normal and healthy situation.”<\/p>\n
As normal and healthy as this is, we’re sticking to handwashing, hand gel and the not directly touching the handles method.<\/p>\n
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