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EPISODE · May 31, 2011 · 2 MIN

Cell Phones in Hospitals May Be Covered with Germs

from 60-Second Health · host Scientific American

A study in a hospital in Turkey found that three quarters of cell phones belonging to patients and visitors carried staph bacteria. Katherine Harmon reports

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