"Germs are literally everywhere in the bathroom and surrounding surfaces and will get onto your hands thereby making the risk of phone contamination even greater. Just visualize, you put your contaminated phone close to your mouth when you make a call, or you touch your phone screen then reach up to rub your eye."
The above from an article in All About Arizona News, which happens to cover the phoenix area where we provide commercial janitorial service. Interviewed for the article was our old friend, Dr. Charles Gerba, a microbiologist just down the road at the University of Arizona. An even more illustrative comment, again from the article:
“When you flush the toilet, water with feces and urine sprays about six feet in every direction.”
So, even though it is socially unacceptable to ignore incoming calls and texts, leave the darn phone outside.
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