Marshall Brain's Blog

---

Something else to worry about #14

[See previous]

Biohazard lurks in bathrooms: Shower curtains awash with potentially harmful bacteria.

From the article:

If you don't scrub your shower curtain, you're asking for trouble. These plastic sheets are flooded with bacteria that can cause nasty infections says Norman Pace, a microbiologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Pace has long been interested in the microbial communities that live all around us, and one day decided to examine the soapy film that covered his shower curtain. "I scraped a little bit of soap scum, put it under the microscope and went: 'Wooah!'" he says. The sample teemed with bacterial life.

And listen to this:

Each time you take a shower you are engulfed by an aerosol of bacteria.

Time to break out the Lysol...