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Science suggests that high-tech hand dryers may actually be "microbial catapults" that blast bacteria back onto your skin.

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In the early 2000s, hospitals across Australia began installing more hand-sanitizer dispensers in their rooms and hallways for staff, visitors and patients to use. Research showed these alcohol-based ...

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The assignment from Nichole Ward’s microbiology professor was simple: Choose a location, open a petri dish for three minutes and observe what grew over the next two days. No one’s sample came back ...

Next time you wash your hands in a public restroom, you may want to think twice about heading towards the hand dryers. A viral video circulating on TikTok reveals what happens if you use a hot-air ...

Doctors can't stop flesh-eating fish tank bacteria that may claim teen's hand. Jun. 15, 2011— -- What started as a small scrape from corner of the family's fish tank five years ago may end in the ...

Tasha Sturm, who works at Cabrillo College, decided she'll remember her son's germs -- always -- so she grew his hand bacteria in a sterile plate. She said in her American Society for Microbiology ...