TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Washing your dirty hands is one of the best-known ways to keep germs from spreading. But, a new study may have you thinking twice before using the hand dryer in a public bathroom.

Washing your grubby mitts is one of the best ways to cut your chances of getting sick and spreading harmful germs to others, but a new study may make you think twice before you use air hand dryers in ...

It's important to wash your hands to ward off germs. However, some hand dryers could be doing more harm than good, according to a new report. Researchers from the University of Connecticut School of ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A study says using a hand dryer spreads 1,300 times as many germs around bathrooms as drying with a paper towel does. When media outlets started reporting this a couple weeks ...

A research study seems to show that jet air hand dryers, which are designed to be more efficient than warm air hand dryers and towels are very germy. The University of Westminster researchers ...

Science suggests that high-tech hand dryers may actually be "microbial catapults" that blast bacteria back onto your skin.

3. The Dyson Airblade was the jet-air hand dryer tested in the study. Dyson criticized a similar study in 2014, nothing that scientists had an unusually high amount of virus on their hands. The ...

The assignment from Nichole Ward’s microbiology professor was simple: Choose a location, open a petri dish for three minutes and observe what grew over the next two days. No one’s sample came back ...