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<p>It&#39;s<a href="https://www.someecards.com/seasonal-cards/work-flu-shot-funny-ecard"> flu season</a>, a time where &quot;going viral&quot; isn&#39;t as fun as it sounds.</p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/nichole.ward.75/posts/10215141893689736">Nichole Ward</a>, a scientist in California, is going viral (the good way) with a post warning everybody not to use hand dryers in public bathrooms.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/nichole.ward.75/posts/10215141893689736" data-width="552"><blockquote cite="https://graph.facebook.com/1503955442/posts/10215141893689736/" class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore"><p>***Alright, Alright, Alright... now i think is a perfect time to tell you a few things. As y&#039;all know how viral this...</p>Posted by <a href="#" role="button">Nichole Ward</a> on <a href="https://graph.facebook.com/1503955442/posts/10215141893689736/">Tuesday, January 30, 2018</a></blockquote></div></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Ward placed a Petri dish in a Dyson Airblade hand dryer, which ended up collecting &quot;several strains of possible pathogenic fungi and bacteria&quot; in only three minutes. All the while, people who dried their hands are feeling proud and clean.</p><p>The post has over 135,000 likes and 525,000 shares, making it a very public Public Service Announcement.</p><p>Some commenters changed their behavior right away.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="facebook" data-attribution-url="" height="98" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2018-02-07-at-32135-pm-8OqVgC.png" width="419" /></div><div class="image-attribution">facebook</div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="" data-attribution-url="" height="115" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2018-02-07-at-32159-pm-Mwspep.png" width="432" /></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p><em>ABC Action News </em>reports that Dyson has been very defensive about the hygiene of their dryers. They even <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKxT1k1cmXc">summoned a microbiologist </a>to debunk studies.</p><p>But just in case: use a towel next time.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="done air bud GIF" src="https://media3.giphy.com/media/26n6Dw0wn8J6Q9ple/giphy.gif" /></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Or just don&#39;t wash your hands at all. That&#39;s how this works, right?</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Woman's viral post about electric hand dryers may scare you back to paper towels.

It&#39;s flu season, a time where &quot;going viral&quot; isn&#39;t as fun as it sounds.Nichole Ward, a scientist in California, is going viral (the good way) with a post warning everybody not to use hand dryers in public bathrooms.***Alright, Alright, Alright... now i think is a perfect time to tell you a few things. As y&#039;all know how viral this...Posted by Nichole Ward on Tuesday, January 30, 2018Ward placed a Petri dish in a Dyson Airblade hand dryer, which ended up collecting &quot;several strains of possible pathogenic fungi and bacteria&quot; in only three minutes. All the while, people who dried their hands are feeling proud and clean.The post has over 135,000 likes and 525,000 shares, making it a very public Public Service Announcement.Some commenters changed their behavior right away.facebookABC Action News reports that Dyson has been very defensive about the hygiene of their dryers. They even summoned a microbiologist to debunk studies.But just in case: use a towel next time.Or just don&#39;t wash your hands at all. That&#39;s how this works, right?

It&#39;s flu season, a time where &quot;going viral&quot; isn&#39;t as fun as it sounds.  Nichole Ward, a scientist in California, is going viral (the good way) with a post warning everybody not to use hand dryers in public bathrooms.   ...