News, Mobile phones may be source of hospital infections. (doctor, nurses, patients)

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Mobile phones used by hospital healthcare workers are often contaminated with germs, including those that can causes illness in hospitalized patients, a Turkish research team reports.

Dr. Fatma Ulger and others at Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, swabbed the dominant hand and the mobile phones of 200 doctors, nurses, and other healthcare staff working in intensive care units and operating rooms.

Mobile phones may be source of hospital infections | Health | Reuters

[Miborn]

Wow!