It’s estimated that more than 200,000 different species of bugs, bacteria and fungus live in our homes at any one time, lurking out of sight like tiny (and revolting) illegal squatters 🖊️ By luce29
March 7, 2023 1:24 pm
“We think of bathrooms as dirty environments so tend to scrub them regularly,” he explains. “We’ll bleach the toilet – but we‘ll bleach the kitchen sink much less frequently. And we almost certainly never bleach things like door knobs, the TV remote, light switches.” Of course not all microbes will harm us. Cox is keen to stress that our bacterial squatters generally want a peaceful life. Unless we’re immunocompromised or have toddlers who put things in their mouths a lot, germs prefer to lay low.
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