In 2008, a study was conducted by the University of Westminster, London, and sponsored by the paper-towel industry the European Tissue Symposium, to compare the levels of hygiene offered by paper towels, warm-air hand dryers and the more modern jet-air hand dryers. 1  The key findings were: 1  After washing and drying hands with the warm-air dryer, the total number of bacteria was found to increase on average on the finger pads by 194% and on the palms by 254%. 2  Drying with the jet-air dryer resulted in an increase on average of the total number of bacteria on the finger pads by 42% and on the palms by 15%.
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In this This Day in History video, learn about the history of December 2. December 2, was the day Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor of France in 1804, the day in 1982 of the first artificial heart surgery, and in 2001 the day of Enron's filing for bankruptcy.