"Dave Fawthrop" wrote in
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On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:23:53 +0100, Adam Funk
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|The air is even more full of bacteria when warm air has been
blowing
|across people's damp hands...

Not all bacteria cause disease, many are helpful to the human body,
notably
those in Yoghurt and most strains of E-Coli.


Indeed, many are beneficial to the body, anti-bodies do not just
appear in the human body you know - as is now being found, being to
clean can lead to health problems such as allergies etc.