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Thursday, November 13, 2008
Is your job making you sick?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Think your jobs is making you sick? You may be right. According to “Dr. Germ”, aka Charles Gerba, a microbiologist at the University of Arizona, “The office environment has created a mechanism for moving germs around,” which has created a need for “some kind of hygiene strategy for offices.” Dr. Gerba and other University of Arizona researchers studied the desks, computers and phones from various professions and here is their list of the ten professions with the most germs:
- Teacher/day-care worker
- Cashier, bank employee
- Tech support/computer repair
- Doctor/nurse
- Lab scientist
- Police officer
- Animal control officer
- Janitor/plumber
- Sanitation worker
- Meat packer
Do you think your job make you sick? (And just for the record, the study found that home offices had even more germs.) Do you think sick co-workers should be sent home? What about you, have you ever gone to work knowing you were ill?
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