Yes, yes, there are germs everywhere. You and I have more bacterial cells than we have human ones. Still, hotel room bedspreads give me the willies. It’s always a dilemma: Do I sleep under just the sheet and freeze, or pull up the bedspread with its untold quantities of previous people’s sloughings?
New research suggest that maybe I should worry about the TV remote and light switches rather than the spread. Presented at the current general meeting of the American Society of Microbiology, the study also includes a finding that housekeeping carts can spread germs from one room to the next, on sponges and mops. Sigh. There goes the lazy pleasure of coming back to a sparkling room.
Surfaces with the lowest contamination included the headboard on the bed, curtain rods and the bathroom door handle.