And if hospitals can't halt the plumes, their next best step may be to ditch high-powered hand dryers. Bathrooms with jet dryers can host five times more bacteria on their floors than those ...

They’re often portrayed as cleaner alternatives to hand-towels, but it seems that jet-air hand dryers may actually not be as clean as you think. A new study has revealed that jet-air hand dryers ...

A study carried out in three hospitals found contamination — including by faecal and antibiotic-resistant bacteria — was “significantly higher” in toilets on the days that jet air dryers ...

A Canadian eighth-grader’s science experiment raises questions about whether hand dryers ... She also measured the loudness at the dryer’s air jet. She waited to measure until there was ...

Modern hand dryers are much worse than paper towels when it comes to spreading germs, according to new research. Airborne germ counts were 27 times higher around jet air dryers in comparison with ...

Those air-blown hand dryers in public restrooms may ... They then had them use warm-air dryers, high-powered "jet-air" dryers or paper towels to dry their hands. The investigators measured ...

Wilmington, Delaware, United States, April 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Transparency Market Research Inc. - The global jet hand dryer market stood at US$ 443.4 million in 2022 and the global ...

A recent study in the Journal of Applied Microbiology says that when it comes to spreading germs in public restrooms, jet hand dryers are king of the vectors. The study compared virus dispersal ...

A simple experiment involving hand dryers has gone viral over the last few days, with many people now committed to doing a Taylor Swift and shaking it off from now on. The video from TikTok user @ ...