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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Sunday, December 7, 2008
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
More Tests & Case Studies (Videos)
Reports and research from tests of people’s cell phones are emerging everywhere, still mostly informal but very telling of the seriousness of the risks to cell phone users.
Some are a random drawing of people walking by, while others a selected focus group of cell phone users.
In either case the results are incredibly enlightening, and in some instances down right scray! If this much bacteria is found on such a large percentage of cell phones, everyone is susceptible to this new health risk that will grow as mobile technology continues to improve.
With recent warnings from the British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) of skin rashes and more terrible conditions relating to mobile dermatitis, it's more important than ever to maintain a clean cell phone and be mindful of where and when we use our phones, and what we do to clean them – besides a futile rub on a shirt.
areyoutalkingdirty.org@gmail.com
Some are a random drawing of people walking by, while others a selected focus group of cell phone users.
In either case the results are incredibly enlightening, and in some instances down right scray! If this much bacteria is found on such a large percentage of cell phones, everyone is susceptible to this new health risk that will grow as mobile technology continues to improve.
With recent warnings from the British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) of skin rashes and more terrible conditions relating to mobile dermatitis, it's more important than ever to maintain a clean cell phone and be mindful of where and when we use our phones, and what we do to clean them – besides a futile rub on a shirt.
areyoutalkingdirty.org@gmail.com
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