REAL LIFE NEWS: YOUR PERSONAL BACTERIA LIVES ON YOUR MOBILE PHONE
by Hazed
The makeup of your personal bacteria is unique to you. Your body just teems with microbes, trillions of different micro-organisms that make up your very own microbiome, like nobody else’s.
Now it has been found that the unique fingerprint of your microbial passengers can be found on your mobile phone.
Phone users have been found to touch their mobiles on average 150 times a day, which transfers bacteria from your body to the device. Stroking the touch screen, holding the phone to your ear – it means there’s a considerable overlap between the collection of microbes present on your body and those found on your smartphone.
This could, say scientists, be used one day to track people’s exposure to bacteria.
Source: http://richarddawkins.net/2014/06/mobile-phones-carry-owners-bacterial-fingerprint/
