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Should I be concerned about the germs in my health club?
So you found out that a local news crew swabbed some of the weights at your local gym and found that there were several types of dangerous bacteria living there.
SO WHAT?
This is not directed at you, but at the media for creating such nonsense. Great media hype story. I don't care if they have salmonella and e. coli growing on every dumbbell, if I don't get sick going to the gym, obviously it's not a big deal. How many people have you known come down with a bacteria or viral infection because they workout?
Next they'll do a study of the germs you find on the ground, that could climb onto your shoe and up your leg and then infect you, and tell us all we should stop walking.