While washing your hands after using the restroom is always recommended hygiene, a recent study might have you thinking twice about using a hand dryer afterward. University of Connecticut ...

First things first: When you go to the bathroom, wash your hands properly when you're done. Seriously. This is not a drill. But what to do with those wet hands? Putting them under a hand dryer ...

Restroom hand dryers don't just blow — they also suck. When they hoover up air, they also siphon in bacteria, which includes microbes carried into the room on people's skin, ...

Hand dryers suck up bathroom air and spew it out at speed. So, in the brief moments your hands rest below the nozzle, they'll be exposed to far more air than usual—and far more bacteria.

An e-mailed alert began circulating in October 2009, holding that hot air hand dryers in restrooms were contributing to the spread of a flu virus: Bathroom Hand Dryers..Interesting Info Everyone ...

Thar be poo in them. And hot air hand dryers really blow. Running such a dryer can be a bit like bringing a leaf blower into a bathroom, sucking in air, bacteria, viruses, and potentially poo and ...

Everyone in the cleaning industry has always been told that hand dryers in restrooms are not sanitary; they spread germs and bacteria around. I always thought that this just came from the paper ...

However, some hand dryers could be doing more harm than good, according to a new report. It’s important to wash your hands to ward off germs. Breaking: 1st court appearance for Georgia school ...

The answer is not so straightforward. Public bathrooms are notoriously germy, which makes choosing between drying your hands ...

The study concluded that those hot-air hand dryers in restrooms expose the user to far more fecal bacteria (OK, we'll just say it. Poop.) than you would be otherwise, by say, drying your hands ...