Subject: Fw: Hand dryers in restrooms spread disease



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> > Guess I'll peek under the hand dryer next trip! >
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> > the cleaning industry has always been told that hand dryers in restrooms are
not sanitary because they spread germs and bacteria around. I always thought
this just came from the paper companies because they are losing sales to the hand
dryers.
> > A couple of years ago, I was working with a rep and noticed that after he
washed his hands and realized that there were no paper towels and only a hand dryer,
he left the restroom with wet hands. I asked him about it. He said that hand dryers blow a lot of germs and bacteria around. He also told me to take a
look under the hand dryer next time I was in a restroom.
> > There is a filter underneath the hand dryer that is supposed to be cleaned
on a weekly basis. I looked at one that obviously hadn't been cleaned in years.
It had layers and layers of caked-on gunk (disgusting). Since then I have not
used dryers in restrooms.
> > Now this is where the story gets really interesting. The schools and universities that have had the H1N1 (swine flue) outbreak this year are being told by the health department that they have to take out all of their hand dryers and replace them with towel dispensers because the hand dryers are spreading disease. Please pass this along so everyone knows not to use hand
dryers.
> > [According to Snopes, this is a research in progress. I myself would rather
be safe than sorry. I always wondered how sanitary the air was blowing from
those things. Yuk. Makes sense to me. I always hated those dryers.

But there is the dryer industry, who says, use them, save paper, save a tree.