Here’s one for germaphobe hotel visitors with OCD.

Maybe you may fear the filthy bedspread covering your questionably-clean sheets, or you worry about the germs and fungi living in the carpets between your toes, or you actually conduct experiments by marking the bottoms of coffee cups, to see if your housekeeper is actually exchanging the in-room mugs. All well and good, but it’s the most banal of furnishings that you really need to worry about.

The most virus-contaminated objects in a hotel room: door handles, pens, light switches and taps. If the previous guest had a cold, you’d be more likely to catch it from the light switch than the armchair or the bedding.

Let’s just hope that the diseases transferred by the door handle don’t get worse than the common cold.

(image: marlandova)