For everyone freaking out about the germs on the NYC subway study, here's what you really need to know

If you use public transit like a friend of mine, you stash tissues in your pocket (so you don't have to touch the "bacteria-laden" handrails) and keep hand sanitizer in your purse (to "de-germ" after the ride). So when I dragged her to an event on Wednesday only to hear Weill Cornell Medical College geneticist Chris Mason announce proudly that he and a team of subway-swabbing researchers had recently identified nearly 600 species of bacteria on the New York City subway (half of which, he admitted, come from a mysterious 'unidentified' source), I didn't have to so much as make eye contact with her to know she was Read more: http://uk.businessinsider.com/pathomap-is-bacterial-map-of-nyc-subway-2015-2?r=US#ixzz3RjFtqZ5P