Computer keyboards 'filthier than toilet seats'

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Research in the UK has found that some computer keyboards harbour more harmful bacteria than a toilet seat. British consumer group Which? said tests at its office identified equipment carrying bugs that could cause food poisoning. Out of 33 keyboards swabbed, four were regarded as a potential health hazard and one harboured five times more germs than the office's toilet seats. The company's John Bogue says one keyboard had 150 times the recommended limit for bacteria. "We're looking at the coliform type of bugs," he said. "The ones people are familiar with are E coli and Staphylococcus aureus." "It could give you a similar thing to food poisoning - diarrhoea, vomiting, that sort of thing." http://au.news.yahoo.com/080501/21/16p4w.html You may want to think twice about eating food while typing on your keyboard. You are either contaminating your keyboard... or eating the germs on your keyboard.