Get this: Your smartphone is 10 times dirtier than a toilet seat, according to microbiologists at the University of Arizona. Sure, many of these germs are harmless. But the researchers make a good ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just how filthy is the average phone? A 2017 study published in the journal Germs looked at 27 phones owned by teenagers and found ...

The most germ-addled item in your home may not be the toilet or the kitchen sponge. Mobile phones pick up bacteria wherever they go. In addition, users touch their phones an average of 47 times a day, ...

CBS NEWS-- Despite their sleek, clean design, cell phones harbor loads of bacteria. That's because they go everywhere with us -- even into the bathroom. Cell phones contain a concoction of all of the ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- It's no secret phones can get pretty dirty over time. Whatever you touch with your hands – food, bacteria, dust -- can be transferred to your cell phone making it a mobile petri ...

From consumers to healthcare workers to retail and security associates, most of us carry mobile devices both for personal use and for work. In enterprise environments, many of these devices are shared ...

A lot of care is being taken in protecting ourselves from the COVID-19 coronavirus and most of it involves keeping hands clean and avoiding crowded places. Until lately, however, few have minded how ...

We wash our hands, sanitise shopping trolleys and wipe down cafe tables. But what about our phones? We touch these devices dozens of times a day, and take them everywhere from the kitchen to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Research suggests that your phone is likely playing host to viruses and bacteria. In addition to frequently washing your hands and ...