Is it true that your hands are gross?
Is it true that your hands are gross? December 12, 2018. Tri-County Healthcare CDC, germs, hand washing, influenza season Your hands are gross. It’s a fact of life. You touch hundreds of surfaces a day, all of which contain their own little worlds of nasty germs. But you might not realize just how gross your hands really are. Germs can survive for up to three hours on your hands. What happens if you touch food with bare hands? A more prevalent danger is cross contamination: if the hands — or gloves which covered the hands, for that matter — handled...