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Your Purse Could Be Making You Sick
A Microbiologist Found Millions of Germs on Purses
The outside and the bottom of purses can be what one expert called "subways for germs." (PhotoDisc)

By Elisabeth Leamy
Aug. 8, 2006— Women rarely go anywhere without a purse, which means that if a woman enters a place full of germs, so does her bag. That could mean she ends up carrying around microbes that could make her sick all day long.

Microbiologist Chuck Gerba researches where organisms that make us sick lurk and lately he says he has found that germs gather on the outside of a woman's purse, especially on the bottom.

" We found fecal bacteria you normally find on the floor of restroom," he said. "We found bacteria that can cause skin infections on the bottom of purses. What's more amazing is the large numbers we find on the bottom of purses, which indicates that they can be picking up a lot of other germs like cold viruses or viruses that cause diarrhea." [read more]

 
 

Study: Women's Offices Have More Germs
But Men's Wallets More Contaminated Than Purses

(CBS/iStockphoto)

By Miranda Hitti

Feb 13, 2007 - (WebMD) Women tend to have germier offices than men, according to a new study on office germs.

The study comes from University of Arizona researchers Sheri Maxwell, B.S., and Charles Gerba, Ph.D. It was funded by the Clorox Company.

The researchers swabbed the offices of 59 women and 54 men in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oregon, and Washington, D.C. They sampled eight sites in each office: the phone, desktop, computer mouse, computer keyboard, exclamation key on the computer keyboard, pen, bottom of desk drawer, and handle of desk drawer. Those samples showed twice as much bacteria in women's offices as in men's. [read more]
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