Caught another article on disease transmission. I've always favored avoiding hospitals whenever possible; I now discover that hospital beds, and particularly mattresses, are a ready source of hospital acquired infections. Even with sheets changed (and, one assumes, railing, headboard and bedside table disinfected), one has a close to six times better chance of picking up the pathogen from the previous occupant than if he'd not been infected in the first place. I could excerpt, but perhaps better to read the article in its entirety.
Not much the janitor can do about that issue.
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