Our Cellphones Are Filthy!
January 5, 2022
Last Reviewed: September 2021
Here’s good reason to clean your cellphone regularly: A pre-pandemic analysis of 56 studies, published in Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, found a wide array of viruses, bacteria, and fungi living on the surfaces of 68 percent of mobile phones. The most commonly found germs were bacteria, mainly Staphylococcus (“staph”), which can cause serious infections. […]