Wash Your Hands, Your Computer Can Make You Sick

If you need one more reason to wash your hands, this may be it. U.S. health officials say the highly contagious norovirus–stomach flu–can be spread via commonly shared items such as computer keyboards and computer mice. (Common in winter, the virus often is picked up at schools, work and on cruise ships.)

Researchers with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have reported that tests done at a Washington, D.C. elementary school in 2007 revealed some victims picked up the virus from computer equipment. This was the first time they identified keyboards and computer mice as a transmission source for norovirus.

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One Response to “Wash Your Hands, Your Computer Can Make You Sick”

  1. Karen Jones Says:
    January 7, 2008 at 5:24 pm

    Excellent advice, this also applies to telephone handsets. We have hospital wards closed here in the UK as it is highly contagious.

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