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How Dry Hands Can Be the Key to More Bacteria Transfer

A dry cookie versus a piece of like wet baloney or salami can be the key to more bacteria transfer. When you touch something with your wet hands, you're gonna get a bunch of bacteria transferred onto your hands. If you wash your hands and then use one of those hands-free paper towels dispensers, and dry your hands, you could touch that same surface that you would have touched with your wet Hands.

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