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The next time a man hands you a hot dog after making a run to the restroom and the concession stand at an Atlanta Braves baseball game, be careful: there is a good chance he did not wash his hands, according to a report released Monday by a group that sends spies into public restrooms in the name of science.
Only about two-thirds of the men observed washed their hands after using the restroom at Turner Field — the lowest rate for any of the locations cited in the observational study and survey on the hand-washing habits of Americans. The study, conducted every few years, was released by the American Society for Microbiology and the American Cleaning Institute at a microbiology conference in Boston.
Some subjects were asked about their washing habits in telephone interviews; others were watched by undercover observers in public restrooms. Some of what the sink spectators witnessed was, well, filthy. Consider: 20 percent of people using the restrooms at Pennsylvania Station and Grand Central Terminal in New York did not wash their hands.
Study Finds That Many Don't Wash After Using Public Restrooms - NYTimes.com
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There's not much in this that couldn't be confirmed by a few moments watching in most restrooms.
Previous and similar studies are the reason I now have my children and grandchildren compulsively grabbing a clean paper towel to open the restroom door before leaving -- otherwise simply getting out of the restroom undoes one's own handwashing.
Dealing with the hot dog vendor example is a different situation entirely, so I just tend toward those who are nice enough to wear some kind of glove so I don't have to wonder about how they rate on the hygiene scale.
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#1 - Mon Sep 13, 2010 9:03 PM EDTAll restroom doors should open OUTWARD. Really. That way you don't have to touch the handle.
No, I'm not a germophobe!! ;-)
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#2 - Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:05 AM EDTI don't think of myself as a germophobe, either. But I've SEEN the people who don't wash touching that handle. :-)
I did have a friend who's sister was OCD, not unlike Monk. She washed her hands so often she eventually started getting yeasts and molds growing on her hands.
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