Study Finds - Health experts are warning shoppers to wash their hands regularly after a study found both feces and vomit-inducing bugs crawling on self-service checkout screens. The investigation by British scientists, involving swabs taken from several everyday objects touched by multiple people, reveals thousands of bacteria on the ubiquitous payment machines.
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I've never liked self checkouts, because they quickly become a way to avoid hiring staff. Once the self check outs appear you can kiss getting any customer service good by. Now to find there is an active health risk in using self checkouts, can we please allow more regular cashiers with hand sanitizer back in stores.
Health experts warn there are feces and vomit-inducing bugs crawling on self-service checkout screens!
Oh come on... Really? Lets not let this get out of hand! (pun intended). Of course we don’t want dirty touch screens at supermarket checkouts, but lets not fall prey to sensationalizing the issue. Sure, technically, flagellated bacteria ‘swim’ or ‘swarm’, but it is specious to intimate that bacteria can ‘crawl’ around the surface of a checkout screen like little insects. A trip of possibly 100µm isn’t significant enough to make a headline.
We all have a normal bacterial skin flora.
I’m glad that the article did talk about “Simple Things”. Hand washing, cleaning surfaces, and covering sneezes and coughs. It also mentioned keeping a distance if unwell.
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