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Who's Behind the Shower Curtain?

Posted by simoniker on from the psycho dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "No, it's not Norman Bates. Instead, hundreds of millions of yellow, pink and white bacteria are hiding on your shower curtain. According to a study by San Diego and Colorado researchers, it should be enough to push you to turn the water off and to make you grab a towel. After analyzing the vinyl shower curtains from their own bathrooms, the scientists found '...about 80 percent of the organisms they found in the flaky scum were in the same genetic families as those known to infect wounds'. Sorry to leave you here, but I also have to go and buy another shower curtain, preferably a disposable one."

6 of 526 comments (clear)

  1. Luckily I Dont Shower EVER! by Fortun+L'Escrot · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But I've had this nasty itch for a couple months now....

  2. haha by anything900 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Like geeks shower anyway. Move on everyone, there's nothing to see here.

  3. Geek hygeine by AtariAmarok · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Who showers anymore? No shower, no germsheet curtain.

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  4. One question ... by John+Jorsett · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ... when did we SlashDotters start bathing? Did I miss a memo?

  5. Re:I call BS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "about 80 percent of Germans come from the same country as Adolph Hitler."

    You mean Austria?

  6. Re:I call BS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    FYI: Hitler was Austrian.