William Harris
The article titled, “ ‘Harmless’ Things You Should Really Wash Your Hands After Touching” by William Harris, is a mind blowing article that shows how every day of people's lives they get germs from all the things they touch and how it can affect them. The article titled, “ ‘Harmless’ Things You Should Really Wash Your Hands After Touching” by William Harris, is a mind blowing article that shows how every day of people's lives they get germs from all the things they touch and how it can affect them. According to the author of this article, William Harris, he claims that when people come in contact with any array of fomites ,they are surfaces that are flooded with bacteria, these surfaces would give people a bigger of a chance to get diseased
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The research Harris provides on water fountain buttons shows how many germs are there “Back in the lab, they tested the swabs for adenosine triphosphate or ATP a chemical found in all living cells and therefore an indicator that bacteria. Of the water fountain buttons tested by the research, 23 percent earned ATP readings of 300 or more” (paragraph 2). Another reliable fact William Harris provides to support his claim of that when people touch disgusting things every day without them figuring how much germs are on that surface for example, communal pen, the research that Dr. J. Owen Hendley, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia, which puts 15 ill people into different hotel rooms after those guests left Dr. Hendley’s team searched the hotel rooms then they found lots of different kind of illness causing germs, and most of the germs were found on communal pens. This fact undoubtedly supports his claim because it shows that these places are the most certain places to catch their next cold, for example in the hotel room where the 15 sick people were, the scientists whom went in those rooms to see what have they infected and they found bacteria on TV remotes, light switches, phones and alarm clocks but mostly on communal pens. The public water fountain buttons and communal pens both clearly support William Harris’s claim that after people touch fomites they have a bigger of a chance to get an illness because research shows that after using both there is a good chance of getting a
The research Harris provides on water fountain buttons shows how many germs are there “Back in the lab, they tested the swabs for adenosine triphosphate or ATP a chemical found in all living cells and therefore an indicator that bacteria. Of the water fountain buttons tested by the research, 23 percent earned ATP readings of 300 or more” (paragraph 2). Another reliable fact William Harris provides to support his claim of that when people touch disgusting things every day without them figuring how much germs are on that surface for example, communal pen, the research that Dr. J. Owen Hendley, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia, which puts 15 ill people into different hotel rooms after those guests left Dr. Hendley’s team searched the hotel rooms then they found lots of different kind of illness causing germs, and most of the germs were found on communal pens. This fact undoubtedly supports his claim because it shows that these places are the most certain places to catch their next cold, for example in the hotel room where the 15 sick people were, the scientists whom went in those rooms to see what have they infected and they found bacteria on TV remotes, light switches, phones and alarm clocks but mostly on communal pens. The public water fountain buttons and communal pens both clearly support William Harris’s claim that after people touch fomites they have a bigger of a chance to get an illness because research shows that after using both there is a good chance of getting a