‘Billions of Trojan horses’: Doctors urged to sanitise their smartphones
Reading this on your phone? You are holding a ‘mobile petri dish’ that threatens the nation's biosecurity.
Smartphones should be considered a threat to the nation’s biosecurity, researchers claim, after they discovered that the phones of 20 doctors attending the WONCA conference in Sydney last year harboured some 2200 dirty secrets.
A Bond University–led team decided to swab the devices, identifying some 2200 different microbes including 1229 viruses, 88 fungi and five protozoa.
