Health experts counter that people who suffer from hyperacusis are often aggravated by noises that are far quieter than a hand dryer. "You'll talk to a woman who complains the refrigerator is ...

He said that hand dryers blow a lot of germs and bacteria ... the floor around it, the counter area, and door and flush handles, using a paper towel on the door handle when exiting the restroom ...

My 5-year-old twins are terrified of hand dryers. When they enter a public restroom, the first thing they do is size up the drying options. If it’s a paper towel dispenser, they visibly relax ...

Captioned "urghh, don't use a hand dryer 😱🦠", the viral video has 4.7m views at the time of writing along with 181k likes, 72k shares and thousands of comments.

The researchers found that jet air dryers dispersed ... This caveating and counter-caveating also crops up when interrogating another measure of hygiene and hand-drying — the accumulation ...

And if hospitals can't halt the plumes, their next best step may be to ditch high-powered hand dryers. Bathrooms with jet dryers can host five times more bacteria on their floors than those ...

Seriously. This is not a drill. But what to do with those wet hands? Putting them under a hand dryer could end up spreading bacteria in public restrooms, according to research conducted by ...

But, did you know using a hand dryer afterwards could undo all that hard work - propelling poo particles throughout an entire building? Hot-air dryers can suck up nasty germs left lurking in the ...

Into a hand dryer and onto your clean hands, perhaps. That's what a new study suggests. Researchers examined plates exposed to just 30 seconds of a hand dryer compared to those left in ...