Captioned "urghh, don't use a hand dryer 😱🦠", the viral video has 4.7m views at the time of writing along with 181k likes, 72k shares and thousands of comments.

After testing each hand dryer, the Petri dishes were placed in an incubator to allow the bacteria to grow in a controlled environment. "Trigger warning around 50 seconds," @the_lab_life1 captioned ...

Hand dryers need to be regularly cleaned and maintained to avoid mold as well as excess bacteria, Susky said. TikTok. The study, published in the Applied and Environmental Microbiology Journal, ...

We turned to microbiologists to see if there was a clear winner in the age-old hand dryer versus paper towel debate—here's ...