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Hospital SuperBug Found on Mobile Phones

Friday, February 10th, 2006
by Lockergnome

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I try to keep my conspiracy side of clamped down (tin foil hats aside), but I found it interesting that just when they said it was safe to use a cell phone in a hospital, a new study has come out to let us know that the average cell phone carrried by a doctor is swarming with deadly bacteria. Of course this begs the obvious question: what about the doctor himself/herself and all of the millions of standard phones already in use?

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