Festival Wrist Band Flesh Eating Risk
‘A rough ballpark figure would be that the amount of bacteria that grew on wristbands was about 20 times higher than you would expect to find on the sleeve of a piece of clothing that would be regularly laundered.” (Daily Mail; http://dailym.ai/1LJSy2j
University of Surrey microbiologist Dr Alison Cottell warns festivalgoers to remove and destroy wristbands immediately after each event to avoid bacterial infections (including septicaemia and staphylococcus bacteria including hospital superbug, MRSA).
