Friday, March 25, 2011

Flip flops are a magnet for deadly bacteria

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Now this is truly enlightening... gross!

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.

Full story:  Flip Flops

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