{"id":6189,"date":"2018-12-02T20:36:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T16:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=6189"},"modified":"2018-12-02T20:37:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T16:37:01","slug":"mobile-phones-seven-times-dirtier-than-a-toilet-seat-finds-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/12\/02\/mobile-phones-seven-times-dirtier-than-a-toilet-seat-finds-new-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile phones seven times dirtier than a toilet seat, finds new study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toilet seats are far cleaner than the average mobile phone \u2013 a shocking new study has revealed.<br \/>\nInitial Washroom Hygiene took swab samples from smartphones and found the average device is nearly seven times dirtier than a toilet seat.<br \/>\nThose clad in leather cases harboured the most bacteria and even phones in easier-to-clean plastic cases have more than six times the germs found on toilet seats, reports\u00a0<strong>Mail Online<\/strong>.<br \/>\nInitial Washroom Hygiene took swabs using a handheld device\u00a0which highlights live microbes on the surface.<br \/>\nWhile toilet swabs showed bacteria on around 220 areas around the seat, the average mobile phone boasted a disgusting 1,479 such spots.<br \/>\nExperts have warned that mobiles become filthy because people take them into the bathroom.<br \/>\nProfessor Hugh Pennington, emeritus professor of bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen told the Mail: \u201cSwabbing a smartphone is almost like checking your handkerchief for germs.<br \/>\n\u201cYou are likely to find them because of the close physical contact you have with this device several times a day.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said that the bugs on mobiles will \u201cprobably be people\u2019s own bacteria so the likelihood of passing on disease is low\u201d.<br \/>\nHowever, Prof Penning added, \u201cit might be ill-advised to pass smartphones around between people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toilet seats are far cleaner than the average mobile phone \u2013 a shocking new study has revealed. Initial Washroom Hygiene took swab samples from smartphones and found the average device is nearly seven times dirtier than a toilet seat. Those clad in leather cases harboured the most bacteria and even phones in easier-to-clean plastic cases &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6194,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189\/revisions\/6194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}