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 ...

That makes hand washing in shared restrooms particularly ... “When people use a jet air dryer, the microbes get blown off and spread around the toilet room," as Mark Wilcox, a University ...

Jet air hand dryers spread bacteria and viruses around public toilets and should not be used in hospitals, according to new research. Staphylococcus aureus, which causes a range of conditions ...

That said, the act of using paper towels doesn't require electricity, unless they're in an automatic dispenser, whereas warm air and jet hand dryers do. While the manufacturing process produces ...

Jet-air dryers were the worst ... His team also found that the bacteria persisted in the air around hand dryers long after they were used. Forty-eight percent of the bacteria around hand dryers ...

Those jet hand dryers might dry your hands super fast ... of viruses when people dry their hands with paper towels, warm air dryers, and jet dryers, and found that jet air dryers were by far ...

Dyson Airblade hand dryers, increasingly ubiquitous in ... that bacterial counts in close proximity to the Airblade jet air dryer were 4.5 times higher than those in close proximity to a warm ...

Jet air hand dryers in hospital toilets spread more germs than disposable paper towels and should not be used, scientists have advised. Writing in the Journal of Hospital Infection, researchers ...

Do you remember the days when you would be washing your hands in a public bathroom and you would either reach for some paper ...

Jet air hand dryers in hospital toilets spread more germs than disposable paper towels and should not be used, scientists have advised. Writing in the Journal of Hospital Infection, researchers ...