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August 23, 2009
SLIPSTREAM
How to Kill Germs, and Consumer Resistance
By NATASHA SINGER
Earlier this year, Dr. Boni E. Elewski told me a story that has made it impossible for me to go barefoot. Dr. Elewski, a professor of dermatology at the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, once tested bedroom carpets in hotels as she scouted for foot fungi (the micro-organisms that can flake off our skin and reside among carpet fibers). She found so many different microbes that she stopped categorizing hotels as being three or four stars. Instead, she now gives them three or four spores. So, when hoteling, I wear socks religiously as my little piece of body armor. And how about you — where do you locate your inner Howard Hughes? Do you carry hand sanitizer around like a talisman? Wear gloves on buses or subways? Press elevator buttons with your knuckles? Eschew bowls of candy next to restaurant cash registers? Roll up your pants two hem lengths before entering a public lavatory or use paper towels to open the door on the way out?
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August 23, 2009
SLIPSTREAM
How to Kill Germs, and Consumer Resistance
By NATASHA SINGER
Earlier this year, Dr. Boni E. Elewski told me a story that has made it impossible for me to go barefoot. Dr. Elewski, a professor of dermatology at the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, once tested bedroom carpets in hotels as she scouted for foot fungi (the micro-organisms that can flake off our skin and reside among carpet fibers). She found so many different microbes that she stopped categorizing hotels as being three or four stars. Instead, she now gives them three or four spores. So, when hoteling, I wear socks religiously as my little piece of body armor. And how about you — where do you locate your inner Howard Hughes? Do you carry hand sanitizer around like a talisman? Wear gloves on buses or subways? Press elevator buttons with your knuckles? Eschew bowls of candy next to restaurant cash registers? Roll up your pants two hem lengths before entering a public lavatory or use paper towels to open the door on the way out?
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