SPECIAL REPORT How dirty are your hands

We wanted to find out what’s on your coworkers hands. We hand 10 people swab their hands before they washed them and then had them washed and swab again. We then took those dishes to this lab were they sat in an incubator for 24 hours. If you look on this plate here you can see the little green ones those are normal mouth organisms, we call them mouth flora Well they might seem harmless, think again If you see the things from your mouth, if someone has the flu or a cold those organisms are going to be on your hands too. That means if your co-worker has the flu from their mouth on their hands and then touches your phone, your desk, your keyboard, and your mouse by the end of the day the flu is everywhere and it can live there for up to 8 hours, but this can all be prevented. If people wash their hands and do it right they can prevent a tremendous amount of