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June 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda SUNDAY, June 17 (HealthDay News) — Television remotes and
bedside lamp switches are right up there with toilets and bathrooms sinks
in having the highest levels of bacterial contamination in U.S. hotel
rooms, a new study shows.
It also found high levels of bacterial contamination on sponges, mops
and other items on housekeeper’s carts. This is a particular cause for
concern because it could lead to cross-contamination of rooms, according
to the University of Houston researchers.
Their analysis of samples collected from 19 surfaces in three hotel
rooms in three states — Texas, Indiana and South Carolina — and found
the lowest levels of contamination on bed headboards, curtain rods and
bathroom door handles.
The researchers could not say whether or nor the bacteria detected in
the hotel rooms can cause disease, but said that the contamination levels
are a reliable indicator of overall cleanliness. Unclean rooms pose a
potential risk to guests, especially those with weakened immune
systems.
The study was scheduled to be presented Sunday at an American Society
for Microbiology meeting, in San Francisco.
“Hoteliers have an obligation to provide their guests with a safe and
secure environment. Currently, housekeeping practices vary across brands
and properties with little or no standardization industry wide. The
current validation method for hotel room cleanliness is a visual
assessment, which has been shown to be ineffective in measuring levels of
sanitation,” Katie Kirsch, an undergraduate student at the University of
Houston, said in a society news release.
She said the study findings could help hotels develop more effective
and efficient ways to clean rooms.
“Currently, housekeepers clean 14 to 16 rooms per eight-hour shift,
spending approximately 30 minutes on each room. Identifying high-risk
items within a hotel room would allow housekeeping managers to
strategically design cleaning practices and allocate time to efficiently
reduce the potential health risks posed by microbial contamination in
hotel rooms,” Kirsch explained.
Because this study was presented at a medical meeting, the data and
conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a
peer-reviewed journal.
More information
The San Francisco Department of Public Health has more about germs.
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