Who This Affects?

It’s tough to specifically answer this question. Hopefully this forum will collaborate information to help articulate a precise answer, perhaps a chart that bases the aversion to risk to how you use your cell phone, what your monthly voice plan is, and how much you text, calendar, email, etc. on your phone.

But common sense and previous similar studies can help answer the question. How bacteria build-up affects a particular cell phone user depends on that user’s personal hygiene, and where and how they used their phone (in the bathroom?).

Personal hygiene plays an important role because a person that maintains good hygiene is likely less susceptible to the more dire health risks that microbiologists have cited can result from bacteria accumulation on cell phones. Washing your hands remains the #1 method of preventing germs from entering your body. In today’s age of increasing use of mobile technology, maintain a clean cell phone may be #2.

Therefore it seems the health risks associated with bacteria build-up on cell phones likely affects every cell phone users, but with varying degrees. This Key Board Germ Test asks some interesting questions that can be applied to mobile phone usage, but we really need a test specifically designed for cell phones.

Who does bacteria build-up on cell phones affect? The answer seems to be every cell phone user.


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