Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using a hand dryer is typically considered to be one of the least nasty stages of using a public bathroom. You’ve just washed your ...

It’s long been suspected that hand dryers, especially those quick-drying ones that blast hot air known as jet dryers, are actually way worse at keeping our hands and bathrooms free of disease-causing ...

A new study may make you think twice before you use air hand dryers that are in public bathrooms. Researchers at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine found the dryers may suck in bacteria ...

New research identifies the kinds and amounts of bacteria from bathroom hand dryers. This follows up work from the University of Leeds Airborne germ counts were 27 times higher around jet air dryers ...

A new research paper shows evidence that hand dryers generate invisible “bacterial highways” inside buildings. The study builds on other recent research about how these devices suck up and disperse ...

A new, small-scale study conducted at the University of Connecticut shows bathroom hand dryers are actually extremely gross. The study, published in the American Society for Microbiology's Applied and ...