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Chuckup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 11:14 AM
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ATTENTION DU'ers: Is your keyboard making you sick? It Might
Researchers have found that harmful bacteria can survive up to 24 hours on computer keyboards...
http://www.healthtalk.ca/bacteria_041105_939322.php
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Joe_VB Donating Member (336 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 11:18 AM
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1. Thats why I clean mine once a week and after I've been sick..
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Chuckup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 11:22 AM
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2. I'd be careful
to wash my hands relly well after using a computer in a library or school, after this...

This is real problem for hospitals after all the super bugs have been popping up
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GOPBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 11:24 AM
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3. Oops.
I always use computers and I rarely wash my hands afterwards. Perhaps I should start.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 11:25 AM
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4. That's why I only use my computer while submerged in a pool of bleach
Edited on Mon Apr-11-05 11:25 AM by Rabrrrrrr
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 11:26 AM
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5. it makes me throw up
every time I read one of those Free Republic threads.
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TNDemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 11:38 AM
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6. I keep hand sanitizer by my keyboard
and a couple of times a day put it on my hands and kinda swipe it over the keys.
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Dervill Crow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 03:45 PM
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7. Hand sanitizer is my friend, too.
Quite often I have to help people at work and use their keyboards. I go through lots of that hand sanitizer stuff, but I don't get colds.
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