The type of germs found on your cellphone can also be found on other everyday devices including computers, keys, pens and landline phones.
However, the risks are greater from cellphone usage because people are attached to them and take them everywhere including to bed, the treadmill at the gym and restaurants.
Mobile phones carry an abnormally high number of coliforms, a bacteria indicating fecal contamination.
Of the eight phones tested by HML Labs of Muncie, there were between about 2,700 and 4,200 units of coliform bacteria.
