Office Bacteria !

It is no secret that women are generally more hygienic than men. For the most part this is true, but a new study has found that men’s offices have more bacteria than woman’s offices. The study looked at 90 offices in three cities, New York, San Francisco, and Tucson. They looked at five types surfaces: chairs desktops, phones, keyboards, and computer mice. The author of the study, Scott Kelley, said, “It could also be that men are less hygienic”. The total bacterial count in men’s offices was anywhere from 10 to 20 percent greater than in women’s offices. Dr. Kelley also said “It was fairly uniform across all of the samples,” meaning that in the there was little difference between the three cities in which the study was conducted. Most of the bacteria found in the offices can actually be traced back to the human mouth and skin, meaning that people are the main source of the bacteria in the offices. Dr. Kelley also emphasizes that the study is not meant to cause alarm and there is no reason to worry, the study was simply done to show us the day-to-day-environment that most of us live in. Although this article was interesting, it was of no real significance. The study was done to simply show us the environments of everyday life. Also the article failed to mention what type of bacteria was found in the office buildings; which further emphasizes that the bacteria are not significant but are only to show that men’s offices contain more bacteria than woman’s. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/science/mens-offices-have-more-bacteria-study-finds.html?ref=science&_r=0

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