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Dirtiest Things People Touch

November 1, 2012
Dirtiest Things People Touch

Lonely Planet has come up with a studied list of the ‘dirtiest things people touch while traveling’ and the results are shocking. Have a look at the top five of them.

1. Keyboards

According to Lonely Planet, the fifth dirtiest thing that people touch while traveling are keyboards, specially in cyber cafes and hotels. they found out that public keyboards can have almost 400 times more bacteria than a flushed toilet. People carry the most germs according to a study done on New York stations, as reported by the Herald Sun.


Public transportation is the fourth dirtiest place where bacteria thrives the most. This is because innumerable people touch the surface of the bus and train every day and those spots are the hotspots. The seats also have an alarming level of faecal matter on them.

public transportation

The next alarming thing that comes in the dirtiest list is money or currency notes. The deadly Staphylococcus bacteria and even faecal matter can be found on currency notes from around the world. One currency note actually had around 1,35,000 bacteria on it, after the Health Commissioner of New York did a test on it. another study found that the cleanest dollar notes in the US have around 20 bugs and the dirtiest ones have around 2,50,000 of them.


The water from the sink also settles down in places where bacteria can grow much faster. The moisture that forms around the sink not only attracts dusts but also bacteria tranfered from people or air.


aeroplane toilets are the dirtiest place people stumble upon while traveling , as listed in the latest guide book by Lonely Planet. As the plane toilets are very small compared to regular toilets anywhere else, the proximity of the toilet bowls and the sinks make it a hotbed for the germs to thrive.

plane toilet


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