• The bulk of germs are hiding where you least expect. The top germ carriers in public places are: playground equipment, the phone receiver, ATMs, elevator buttons, escalator handrails, shopping cart handles, picnic tables and portable toilets.
• An estimated 60 million days of school and 50 million days of work are lost annually because of the common cold.
• A line of 1000 germs can fit across the period at the end of this sentence.
Facts On Germs
• The speed of a sneeze is more than 100 miles per hour, and that sneeze can spread 5,000 droplets, containing 10,000 bacteria to a distance of 12 feet.
• A computer keyboard can have 3,295 germs per square inch. That amount is 400 times more than the number of germs found on the top of a public toilet seat.
• More germs are spread by shaking hands than by kissing.

Information from protectdontinfect.com