Townsville Bulletin

Phones full of bacteria

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RESEARCHER­S are calling for Australian­s to clean their mobile phones after a petri dish experiment found them crawling with bacteria, faecal contaminat­ion and parasites.

A Bond University project swabbed the phones of 30 health care workers.

They found microscopi­c horrors including e coli, salmonella and listeria, Associate Professor Lotti Tajouri said.

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