At 82, I’m Completely At Home With Bacteria | Brief Letters

Regarding nan article connected germs successful homes (Is your location a wellness hazard? 15 amazingly filthy mundane items, from taps to toothbrushes, 17 July), I person managed to unrecorded to nan property of 82 without ever putting a cutting committee successful nan dishwasher, aliases sterilising ray switches, nan TV distant aliases my spectacles. I do boil nan dishcloth each mates of weeks and that’s it. We person lived pinch these germs for millennia. Is location immoderate grounds that sterilising each aboveground would do thing different than summation paranoia?
Owen Wells
Ilkley, West Yorkshire

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Liz Taylor
West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire

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Mia Hansson
Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

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Gill Empson
Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire

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John Kinder
Romsey, Hampshire