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 ...

NEW YORK — Are hand dryers in public restrooms blowing bacteria back on your freshly washed hands as you’re drying them? PIX11 collected samples from a variety of restrooms in the city and, working ...

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 ...

Every flush of an uncovered toilet sends fecal matter flying into the air, science tells us, a phenomenon known as "toilet plume." That makes hand washing in shared restrooms particularly important, ...

Hand dryers may leave your hands significantly more dirty than before, according to a new study. The study, the results of which were published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, ...

Scientists from the University of Connecticut detailed in a new study that bathroom hand dryers are blowing bacteria including fecal matter all over people's hands and throughout the building. The ...