Did you know that grocery store carts often times have more germs than a public bathroom handle?
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When you travel, you leave your controlled, clean, routine environment and venture into unmarked territory. You touch, eat, even sleep on lots of foreign and possibly dirty things. But if, like me, you have an ongoing case of wanderlust, the world's germs aren't enough to deter your globetrotting ways. You have just learned how to prepare for them. Because the fact is that you can plan and organize your life to a T, but if you get sick all your plans go down the drain. Goodbye trip to Hawaii you planned months ago, goodbye presentation you're supposed to give at work tomorrow…
The more you know about fending off germs, the more control you have over the seemingly uncontrollable—sickness. Here are 8 of the most germ-infested public places. Take extra care to wash your hands, take an EmergenC, sauna, slather on Bees Aloe & Witch Hazel Hand Sanitizer (or all of the above), after touching these (warning… not recommended reading for people who are already germaphobic):
