Your Germy Flip-Flops Can Kill

Here's another one of those "studies" that impart information you rather not know. Or, do you?

Two NYC reporters wore flip-flops for four days traipsing through city streets, parks, trains, public restrooms, an amusement park then had them tested in a lab.

The results show there were up to 31,000 bacteria of the five most prevalent varieties living on the flip-flops and some of them can kill you!

While fecal bacteria Staphylococci, Aerococcus viridans and Rothia mucilaginosa and a host of others (some of them non-disease-causing) were found on the footwear, so was the potentially deadly Staphylococcus aureus bacteria.

"It can make you pretty sick if it got into a wound and into your blood, where it could attack any of your internal organs," says Dennis Kinney, Ph.D., the manager of the microbiology lab at EMSL Analytical. "If you didn't treat it with antibiotics, you could die from it."

Sounds pretty frightening.


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