Airborne contaminants, dirty toilet seats, mold, and mildew: Long before the coronavirus pandemic came around, the hygiene-focused among us knew public washrooms are grimy places. Warm air dryers ...

Hand dryers in public restrooms that blast bathroom air onto your recently washed hands can deposit bacteria, a recent study has found. Published in the April 2018 issue of the journal Applied and ...

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Modern hand dryers are much worse than paper towels when it comes to spreading germs, according to new research. Modern hand dryers are much worse than paper towels when it comes to spreading germs, ...

A new study may make you think twice before you use air hand dryers that are in public bathrooms. Researchers at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine found the dryers may suck in bacteria ...

Hot-air hand dryers in public bathrooms 'suck in' bacteria from flushing toilets, new research suggests. Previous studies show such dryers can disperse germs from people's hands on to surrounding ...

Modern 'jet air' hand dryers dry the hands in seconds, shooting air out at 400mph to blow away moisture. Now commonplace in public toilets, they also produce significantly more noise than older models ...

A new study has found that as far as cleanliness goes, it’s better to use paper towels than hand dryers in public restrooms. But that study glosses over the truly frightening explanation behind the ...

Modern hand dryers are much worse than paper towels when it comes to spreading germs, according to new research. Scientists from the University of Leeds have found that high-powered ‘jet-air’ and warm ...