They are pretty much essential, but you may want to ditch your mobile phone for ever after reading this.
手機在我們的生活中不可或缺,但你在看完這篇文章后可能永遠也不想用手機了。
The average handset carries 18 times more potentially harmful germs than a flush handle in a men's toilet, tests have revealed.
有關檢測表明,一個普通手機上所攜帶的有害細菌量是男廁所一個沖廁手柄所攜帶細菌量的18倍。
An analysis of handsets found almost a quarter were so dirty that they had up to ten times an acceptable level of TVC bacteria.
一項對手機的研究分析發現,近四分之一的手機十分骯臟,所攜帶的細菌量高達可接受細菌安全值的十倍。
One of the phones in the test had such high levels of bacteria it could have given its owner a serious stomach upset.
其中一只受測手機細菌攜帶量十分之高,足以導致使用者出現嚴重腹痛癥狀。