Your phone is essentially a portable petri dish. Think about everywhere you take it-the gym, the kitchen, and yes, the bathroom-and then consider that it spends half its life pressed against your face ...

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 ...

A quick Google search suggests that your cell phone may be germier than a toilet seat. Regardless of whether these reports are true or false, cold and flu season is at its height, making now a prime ...

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