Your Cellphone, an MRSA Biohazard?

May 26th, 2006 · 4 Comments

Yep, it is. And while we’re at it, your remote control is too. Do you ever clean that thing???

Men’s Health magazine has always been at the forefront of bringing attention to MRSA when no one else has. They currently are running an article about common biohazards in the home, and the one that concerns us at MRSA Notes is
the cellphone.

How to Beat it: Sanitize your cell once a week with Clorox disinfecting wipes (or any of the supermarket-brand clones). “The wipes won’t get into the internal parts of the phone and damage it the way a spray might,” says Gerba. If you want more peace of mind, consider Motorola’s new i870 cellphone ($300 with a 2-year Nextel contract). The i870 comes treated with AgION Antimicrobial, a very fine ceramic powder coating that contains silver ions, the same substance that’s woven into some gym apparel to help inhibit the growth of bacteria.

Maybe I can sweet talk Jayvee at Cellphone9 into writing something up about this phone, as I can’t seem to find it on his site just yet. This sounds like a great thing for all of us germophobes!!

For now, if you are interested, here is the page about the phone at Motorola.

antimicrobial, Awareness, cell phones, MRSA, Silver

4 responses so far ↓

Gloria // May 30, 2006 at 12:26 am

believe or not but i used to disinfect my cellphone! that’s the influence i got from colleagues who are microbiologists. the habit of waiping anything with disinfectant has rubbed on me.

Thanks fro this reminder i gotoo go wipe my cp with disinfectant. he he.
Christina // May 30, 2006 at 5:18 am

LOL I am sure you are disinfectant happy. So many people are, but so many others would never think about wiping down their phone, or their remote control. Heck, they dont even think about wiping down those nasty remote controls in the hospitals! Yuck.
» How to sanitize your cellphone Cellphone9 // Jun 1, 2006 at 12:12 pm

[...] Christina from MRSA Notes writes about the specially treated Motorola phones that doubles as a sanitizing unit so you don’t die of infection. (Argh! My battery is dead .. and me too!) [...]
Melanie // Aug 22, 2007 at 10:06 am

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