You cannot escape poop bacteria
Bathrooms are gross, but so is everything.
By Sara Chodosh April 16, 2018
This bathroom probably isn't much grosser than your kitchen, at least in terms of fecal bacteria.
You may have heard there’s poop bacteria getting sprayed all over people’s hands by bathroom hand dryers. But did you know there’s poop bacteria everywhere!?
That’s right. While you’ve been freaking out over individual headlines suggesting that a tiny amount of fecal bacteria is lurking on your hands or faucets or what-have-you, those studies have been amassing into a whole body of research that shows pretty definitively that bacteria from our poop is absolutely everywhere. Here’s a short list of all the places scientists have found poop bacteria:
https://www.popsci.com/poop-is-everywhere
