If you want to stay away from germs during your next hotel stay, just don't turn on the TV or lights there because TV remotes and light switches are most dirtiest items in hotel rooms, a new study has found.
Researchers, who took bacteria samples from several items in hotel rooms in three regions in the US, found that the TV remote and the switches of the bed-side lamp have surprisingly high contamination levels following the toilet and the sink.
Hotel rooms "don't have to have it ready for surgery," said study researcher Jay Neal, a microbiologist at University of Houston, but there certainly is scope for improvement in their cleanliness.
The amount of bacteria on the remote may not mean that it's “any dirtier than at home, but there's a stranger factor” in a hotel room, said Neal, who oversaw the research.
According to lead researcher Katie Kirsh, housekeepers spend about 30 minutes cleaning each room. If researchers can pinpoint the most contaminated parts of the room, the cleaning process could be made more effective, he added.
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