If you walk in slippers, you have a higher chance of getting a disease. That is what American researchers conclude.
Before the study, subjects walked around New York in flip-flops for four days. The slippers were then examined in a laboratory. There it turned out that there are more than 18,000 bacteria were on the slippers. "After wearing slippers for three months, 93 percent contain bacteria from feces and 20 percent contain E. coli bacteria," according to one of the researchers.
Many of the bacteria found are harmless, but some can be very dangerous to be. According to the researchers, you can become seriously ill if, for example, you have a small wound on your foot and a bacteria enters your blood that way.
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