The Dirtiest Things You Touch When You Travel

The top 5 dirtiest things you'll touch during your travels are not things you'd normally consider. Nope, bathroom toilet seats or even wild animals are mentioned...

1. Airplane Bathrooms

The close proximity of the toilet to the sink are significant. Germs can easily move about from one area to the next in these tight quarters.

2. Public Transport

The best next thing in touching other people and transmitting germs among one another is touching the very same things where they've been. If people exercise unclean practices anyways, the items they carry are just as filthy. Be aware of where other people's travels as much as your own. Not only can these germ-infested zoos be found throughout public services but also in rental cars.

3. Computer Keyboards

Again, let me please reiterate how people are constantly around and have most likely visited where you are right this minute. Computer keyboards hold a lot of dust between those tiny cracks of the keys. Dust is a collection of dead skin cells. Need I say more...?

4. Money

Yes, it's true that 90% of money has come into contact with cocaine. But, the transmittance of money between people is even worse. Anything related to money, such as Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) are just as bad. The beauty of it is bacteria and diseases can't last very long as money is a dry object and isn't the best place for a bacterial festering ground.

5. People

This merely relates directly back to how only 49% of people who use public restrooms wash their hands directly afterwards. I can not emphasize too much the importance of normal, daily hygiene methods.

Please don't have hand sanitizer consume the rest of your life, or any anti-bacterial solutions for that matter. As introduced to me in 2005, triclosan should be avoided as much as possible for the betterment for all of us. This mostly used anti-bacterial ingredient is said to be of no use... soon! It is said that bacteria are growing a rapid resistance against triclosan and this evolutional adaptation of bacteria may not longer be barred by our common use of anti-bacterials. This may create a fairly large issue in the medical field as endless numbers of people cross-culturally rely on these medications. So please practice simple hygiene methods and reduce the use of anti-bacterials as much as possible.

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