Just How Buggy Is Your Phone?

WHAT ITEM in your home crawls with the most germs? If you said the toilet seat, you’re wrong. Kitchen sponges top the list. But cell phones are pretty grimy too. They contain around 10 times as many germs as toilet seats. People touch their phones, laptops, and other digital devices all day long, yet rarely clean them.

- Kathryn Hulick

In one incident, a thief paid a terrible price for swiping a germy cell phone. He stole it from a hospital in Uganda during an epidemic of the deadly disease Ebola. The phone’s owner reported the theft before dying from the disease. Soon, the thief began showing symptoms and confessed to the crime.