Contributed by: filbert Tuesday, September 15 2009 @ 07:57 AM CST
The (University of Colorado at Boulder) researchers used high-tech instruments and lab methods to analyze roughly 50 showerheads from nine cities in seven states that included New York City, Chicago and Denver. They concluded about 30 percent of the devices harbored significant levels of Mycobacterium avium, a pathogen linked to pulmonary disease that most often infects people with compromised immune systems but which can occasionally infect healthy people, said CU-Boulder Distinguished Professor Norman Pace, lead study author.
Because, you see, hygiene is unhygienic. Or something like that. As they say at Fark.com: EVERYBODY PANIC.
Or, in my version: We Are All Going To Die!
Wash your hands, everyone!