Is your cell phone as dirty as a toilet?

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Updated: 9/03/2012 3:49 pm
Syracuse (WSYR-TV) -- Next time you use your phone, you may want to give it a little clean. Researchers have discovered there are more bacteria on the average mobile phone than you’ll find in a toilet.

In tests, there was up to 10 times the amount of bugs, which can cause nausea and stomach problems than were present in a lavatory.

Researchers say the reason is that phones are often passed between people, which spreads germs around and they say phones are never cleaned.

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