"Have you heard the news of the mobiles?" A co-worker told me yesterday. I immediately thought about the relationship between mobiles and electromagnetic waves with cancer, a topic that has been talked about a lot lately, with no evidence to prove it, by the way, but no, he has continued talking and told me: “They have found fecal material on mobiles”.
At that time I have thought about all those mobiles that I have touched because someone has bought it recently and the mobiles that my children have touched, which fortunately are not too many. Then I thought about mine and I immediately remembered that I do wash my hands after emptying my bowel, so I breathed a little more calmly.
The fact is that a study conducted in the United Kingdom has shown that one in six mobiles is contaminated with E.Coli due to poor personal hygiene of the British, leaving the Water closed (aka WC) without washing your hands.
This lack of hygiene, as they comment, could cause food poisoning by said bacteria, since it is transmitted very easily through touch or food. In addition, they are bacteria capable of surviving for hours on a surface (such as a mobile, for example).
Once the mobiles were analyzed, they analyzed the hands of their owners and the results were practically the same. Those whose mobiles had faecal bacteria carried the same bacteria in their hands.
As an anecdote, comment that Birmingham is the city in which there are more contaminated mobiles, with a negligible 41% of those analyzed (going to visit Birmingham), while London is where more E. coli was found (in 28 % of devices).
Now is when you stop to think about the Spanish flora and fauna and remember all those times when you go to a public toilet and see several men come and go without greeting the water. I there with my son getting lost of water and the others saying that they are dry. If they did this study in Spain, we would finally know how clean we are: “the truth is out there,” they say.
With regard to the advice I can give you, I am sure you already have it clear. Nobody leave your mobile to see it, however cool it is, and Above all, do not put your drawings on your mobile or that cool game that just came out for the iPhone or Android. A "come on son, there's nothing to see here" fixes everything (you can also try to be more diplomatic, of course).
