Researchers, who took bacteria samples from several items in hotel rooms in three regions in the US, found that the TV remote and the switches of the bed-side lamp have surprisingly high contamination levels following the toilet and the sink.
Hotel rooms "don't have to have it ready for surgery," said study researcher Jay Neal, a microbiologist at University of Houston, but there certainly is scope for improvement in their cleanliness.
The amount of bacteria on the remote may not mean that it's "any dirtier than at home, but there