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Mobile phones used by healthcare personnel in the hospital can spread dangerous infectious agents
Something to be concerned about. Techdirt picked up a story on Yahoo News that cell phones used by healthcare personnel in hospitals can spread dangerous infectious agents, according to researchers in Israel. In a random screening for the germ Acinetobacter baumannii, a common source of in-hospital infections, out of 124 hospital personnel tested, an alarming 12 percent of their phones were contaminated with the bug, "It is especially dangerous because it "can survive on dry surfaces for a long period of time. The results are disturbing because Acinetobacter baumannii has the propensity to develop resistance to almost all available antibiotics". |
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