Germs By The Numbers

• Office workstations have 400 times more germs than toilet seats.
• Telephones have up to 3,894 germs per square centimeter.
• 511 germs can be found on a square centimeter of a keyboard.
• 260 germs per square centimeter can be found on a computer mouse.
• Certain cold and flu viruses can live for up to 72 hours on surfaces.
• In the average office 20 per cent of coffee cups contain fecal bacteria.
• 1 in 4 purses carry the E.Coli bacteria

In one study, restaurant tabletops had more than 2 times the bacteria count of diaper changing tables.

The top 3 germiest locations in the average house are:

• 1. Kitchen sponge or dish cloth
• 2. The kitchen sink
• 3. The bathroom sink

Toilet seats are ranked at 8 in the list.