The Dirtiest Part of an Airport is Not the Toilet
When researchers recently sought out the dirtiest part of an airport, it wasn’t the toilets. And that’s something to celebrate, especially today, because today is World Toilet Day. The toilet is the unsung hero of human health. Just imagine our country without — we’d still be plagued by cholera, dysentery, typhus, typhoid and much more.
So if not the toilet, where is the highest concentration of germs in an airport? It’s where you place your hand luggage, hand being the operative term here, because it’s those plastic security bins that virtually everyone handles that have the highest concentration of germs. We can take all the vitamins we want, but washing one’s hands is the single most effective way to stay healthy but 95% of us do not wash our hands correctly. We spend on average just six seconds under the faucet which spreads around microbes but does not rid us of them. Even worse, less than 40 percent of men and only about 60 percent of women even bother to wash their hands after using the toilet.
So if not the toilet, where is the highest concentration of germs in an airport? It’s where you place your hand luggage, hand being the operative term here, because it’s those plastic security bins that virtually everyone handles that have the highest concentration of germs. We can take all the vitamins we want, but washing one’s hands is the single most effective way to stay healthy but 95% of us do not wash our hands correctly. We spend on average just six seconds under the faucet which spreads around microbes but does not rid us of them. Even worse, less than 40 percent of men and only about 60 percent of women even bother to wash their hands after using the toilet.
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