One Third of Hospital Toilets Not Properly Cleaned: C. Difficile Germs Linger
Sunday, May 11, 2008 - 09:35
in Health & Medicine
Hospital cleaners should watch out because the toilet police are patrolling with their new secret weapon: invisible markers. A team of Canadian scientists using a lotion which glows under ultraviolet light have shown that up to a third of patient toilets are not properly cleaned. Their findings, also show that spores from the nasty bacteria Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) linger in the loo even when it has been thoroughly wiped down.