Abstract
I might have been, but was not, alarmed last night when hearing on my car radio about a piece of research that had revealed the considerable danger of Escherichia coli acquired from car steering wheels. A university researcher had been to a car park with some cotton wool swabs which, taken back to the lab and plated out on nutrient medium, had revealed “astronomical” numbers of E. coli cells in 9 out of 10 vehicles. “Although E. coli can be harmless,” the reporter said, “it also causes not only severe gastrointestinal infections but also life-threatening conditions such as kidney failure.”
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