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Who's Behind the Shower Curtain?

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."

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  1. Solution: by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 1, Troll

    Don't use shower curtains?

    Got a nice and clean door-like system. Very easy to clean, all parts are reachable and if they aren't, they are detachable so you can reach over and clean anyways. The whole system is lovely and when properly sealed up around the edges it's pretty much clean and not a biohazard.