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Lifting The Lid On Computer Filth

Posted by timothy on from the filthy-thoughts-too dept.

IainMH writes "There's a story over at BBC News about how work stations contain nearly 400 times as many microbes than lavatories. Gross. 'A desk is capable of supporting 10 million bacteria and the average office contains 20,961 germs per square inch, according to research. ... By contrast, the average toilet seat contains 49 germs per square inch, the survey showed.'"

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  1. Hmmm.... by luxis · · Score: 5, Informative

    Old news? Workstations 'Dirtier Than Toilets' /. article Mon May 13, '02 02:43 PM.

    Same story at CNN

    At least... if you're working at your workstation its 'your' bacterias and not some others ass/shit/piss? ;-)