Public bathrooms are teeming with microbes! You know to wash your hands, but when choosing between a hand dryer or a paper towel to dry them off— what’s your cleanest bet?
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jam.13014/full
http://fortune.com/2016/04/16/air-dryers-disperse-viruses/
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