If you are smart, you will not touch any magazine in a doctor's office.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cold and flu bacteria can survive for up to 8 hours on magazines. Researchers tested four strains of pathogens, including E. coli and staph bacteria, and found that all strains survived on a paper surface. "Most of the tested pathogens were quite stable on paper for up to 72 hours,” state the authors — that’s three full days. The researchers managed to cultivate germs from the same sheet of paper seven days after the bacteria was first spread on the surface.
“If you are smart, you will not touch any magazine in a doctor’s office.”
You know, I have never considered what you just related. Maybe that’s why doctors have such a pi$$ poor selection of magazines. I seldom look at them now. I will stick to my iPhone from now on. Thanks for the tip.