India, April 5 -- There are 8.2 billion people in the world, and over two-thirds use mobile phones, and over half are known to use them in the bathroom and with soiled hands. Recent research has highlighted that mobile phones have an abundance of a broad spectrum of microbes. A scientific study published in Nature Journal identified a diversity of antibiotic-resistant and virulent microbes (5714 bacteria, 675 fungi, 93 protists, 228 viruses, and 4453 bacteriophages, a total of 11,163 organisms) present on 26 mobile phones owned by hospital medical staff. Half of these mobile phones had been used in the bathroom. Mobile phones that are not decontaminated may pose serious risks to public health and biosecurity.

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