Flip-flops are the most disgusting thing I see on people’s feet. We need to somehow influence more people that flip-flops are dangerous and people should stop wearing them. NYC people unite and have flip-flops banned from city streets.
By Leah Chernikoff AND Jacob E. Osterhout
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Tuesday, August 11th 2009, 4:00 AM
Life on the street: Our reporters' germy flip-flops.
The flip-flop is the preferred summer shoe for many New Yorkers. But on city streets, the flimsy footwear can be deadly.
That film of grime that coats your feet at the end of a day of flopping around town is some dangerous dirt.
Lab tests of two reporters' flip-flops, worn for four days, revealed a potentially deadly germ - Staphylococcus aureus - lurking on the rubber.
If it seeps into a cut on your foot - an entirely common summer affliction - the bacteria can enter the bloodstream and, if left untreated, kill you.
"It can make you pretty sick if it got into a wound and into your blood, where it could attack any of your internal organs," says Dennis Kinney, Ph.D., the manager of the microbiology lab at EMSL Analytical. "If you didn't treat it with antibiotics, you could die from it."
read the rest > http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/health/2009/08/11/2009-08-11_flipflops_are_a_magnet_for_dangerous_deadly_bac.html
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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