Are You Working with Dangerous Germs?
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The Early Show” Takes a Closer Look at Germs Lurking in Its Workplace. In the final installment of our series “Germ Warfare,” CBS News correspondent Kelly Wallace looked at how germy, and potentially disease-ridden, the workplace can be.
Wallace reported work days lost due to illness and injury carry total annual costs of nearly $63 billion, according to a study in the July Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
However, in some cases, Wallace said, it may be the workplace itself that’s responsible for the sick time.
So how much bacteria and germs do you really come into contact with at work?
Dr. Charles Gerba — also known as Dr. Germ — has been tracking the levels of disease-causing bacteria for 10 years. He uses a germ-meter, which gives a relative idea of how many bacteria are living on a surface.
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