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US microbiologist says toilet seats cleaner than office desks

Prof Charles Gerba shook hands for what must have been the 100th time that day and kept talking as he seamlessly turned to the hand-wash dispenser and the paper towels.

“You know, 20% of germs you’ll transmit are passed through handshakes,” the man some in the United States fondly call Dr Germ joked in a kitchen in Dunedin’s Regent Theatre yesterday.

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