Mobile phones are up to six times dirtier than toilet seats as a quarter of us never clean device, says shock study
The Scottish Sun -

PHONES are up to six times dirtier than toilet seats, says a shock study. And a quarter of us never clean our device. Swab tests found 52 per cent of handsets were heavily contaminated with microbe

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