Jetted Bath Tubs Contain Potentially Lethal Bacterial Strains

Posted by wfleonard in The Sand and the Foam Blog

Reprint from 3/3/2006, Bio-Medicine.Org Researchers from Texas A&M University said that poorly maintained whirlpool bath tubs both private and public serve as breeding grounds for potentially lethal bacterial strains. They tested 43 water samples and found all of them had some kind of microbial growth. Various Bacterial strains especially those found in feces contributed about 95% of the samples, while 81% had fungi and 34% contained potentially deadly staphylococcus bacteria. Dr Rita...