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Post Office Box 2455 Payson, Arizona 85547 (800)828-6649 (928)474-8140 (928)474-8170 Fax | Forget Y2K! - Your computer keyboard could be the real millennium bug!(The following is a transcript of Extra TV show from December 1, 1999.) You probably never imagined that your computer keyboard could be making you sick. But we went undercover to find out if keyboards could be contagious, and the results were shocking! They are right under our very noses and at the tips of our fingers. Hiding finally and invisibly inside computer keyboards. Millennium bugs, millions of dangerous germs that have become a health hazard of the information age, and as we discover in a special undercover investigation, these critters aren't fooling around. Computer keyboards have become a natural breeding ground for germs. A place where all of us drop food, spill drinks, and leave infectious bacteria for others to catch. Computer repairman and cleaners have found everything from grease to animal hair, and Dr. Kelly Reynolds a Microbiologist at the University of Arizona even found bodily fluids while conducting a study for the Clorox Company. "We found that half of the keyboards we tested were positive for urine." We decided to flush out these germs for our self, so went sent bug busters armed with hidden cameras and cotton swabs to public libraries, cyber cafes, airports, and public computer stations in New York, Portland, and Los Angeles. We secretly swabbed keyboards, sealed the swabs in cleaned tested tubes and sent a total of 20 samples to Universal Diagnostic Laboratories in New York for analysis. Lab supervisor Edward Elsaby says potentially dangerous germs were found on just about all the samples, but the worst were those from New York. At the Cyber internet Cafe we found streptococcus which causes colds and flu. At the Newark Airport there were germs that cause urinary tract infections. At the New York Public Library we discovered bacteria that cause sinus and respiratory ailments. But get this, at the News Bar we found bacteria which causes pneumonia - yes pneumonia! News Bar manager Beth Feldman was alarmed. "Now that I know this is going on, we can clean the keyboards 3 times a day and see if that will help." Those most at risk of getting sick are the elderly, anyone with an open wound, or people with a weakened immune system. But doctors admit they have a lot to learn about this computer age peril. "We don't really have numbers as to how often people can actually get sick from contact with organisms on surfaces. But we do know that 75 million people contact bacterial illnesses a year, 80,000 will die." Yikes. So how can you protect yourself?
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