Mask? Some people want to wear SCUBA equipment because the air is befouled by so many dirty buggers that one needs a tank with fresh air in it to enter a store to shop. It’s good to sanitize anything before you even touch it, like the handle on a shopping cart. Some foul creature may have soiled it and covered it with germs. Why take a chance? Wipe everything. Spray everything. Use sanitizer and anything else you can to clean the things the dirty people touch. Thanks to measurements of microbes taken in recent studies, we can definitively say that shopping carts are some of the absolute dirtiest public surfaces. … In the sample of 85 random shopping carts, a whopping 50 percent were found to be dirtier than a toilet seat. Shopping cart handles carry E. coli, and 72 percent contained coliform bacteria. What’s worse, the shopping carts were found to harbor some of the most painful microbial monsters, such as diarrhea-causing Campylobacter and the potentially deadly Salmonella. This level of coliform suggests that fecal matter is involved in the contamination of most shopping carts. Fecal matter… In plain words that’s shit!
“The viruses can actually live on some cart surfaces for up to four days and studies have shown that shopping carts are dirtier than a public toilet,” researcher Rubin said.
During a swab test, WCNC Charlotte collected samples that found MRSA, staph and even black mold growing inside an airplane cabin.
On a flight out of Charlotte, WCNC Charlotte’s Savannah Levins took a science experiment with her. She took medical swabs to different parts of the plane — from armrests and tray tables to the bathroom sink and door lock. The swabs were then transferred onto Petri dishes of agar, a substance that will show what germs and bacteria were lurking on those surfaces.
A week later, the results were taken to infectious disease specialist Dr. Arash Poursina. Last year, Poursina tested samples that were collected from makeup testers from popular stores for WCNC Charlotte. The results were stomach-turning.
“Even if you had not written sink over here, I would’ve guessed,” said Dr. Poursina, pointing to the sink sample, which had a reddish colored growth all over it.
“The reddish pigmentation you see here is probably Serratia,” Dr. Poursina said. “Serratia is a nasty bug that causes very serious infections. It’s a very bad bacteria, actually. It can cause horrible, hospital-required infections.”
Next up was the bathroom door lock.
“Old-fashioned staph or MRSA,” Dr. Poursina said. “It looks like a gram-negative rod that causes quiet the nasty infection.”
Back in the cabin, the results weren’t much better.
“One on the armrest, I can see staph again or MRSA,” Dr. Poursina said. “The mucoid thing is probably some sort of G.I. bug. That is probably a mold.”
The tray tables were the worst of all. Dr. Poursina pointed out about five different species of mold growing on them.
“You’ve got some black mold, strep, G.I. organisms, like E. Coli,” Dr. Poursina explained. “I would not eat anything off any of these.”
Your supermarket is filled with germs — here are 7 facts that will make you dread grocery shopping….. A budget grocery store cart has 8,112 bacteria colonies per square inch, while a toilet handle only has 30 bacteria colonies per square inch.
Traditional grocery store shopping carts have 361 times more bacteria than a bathroom door knob.
Superstores were found to have 33,340 bacteria colonies per square inch on fridge doors, as compared to the 27 colonies per square inch found on the average cell phone surface.
One of the most common bacteria types found on grocery store fridge doors is antibiotic-resistant.
Upscale grocery store produce have 11 times more bacteria than the bottom of your dog’s food bowl.
Budget grocery stores have, by far, the highest amount of harmful bacteria, with 5,666,667 bacteria colonies per square inch — they are three times dirtier than your average toothbrush container.
Trust no one. Take no chances that some filthy befouled critter touches it before you did. Scrub, scrub, scrub. The more bubbles from scrubbing the safer you will be.
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