Dirty dishes, stinking sinks and odious ovens don't just look bad, they can contain all sorts of bacteria and bugs that could make your life a misery. Discover 5 of the most common and learn how to fight them Kim and Aggie style.
By Neal Price, illustrations by Anke Weckmann.
1. Dust Mite
The mites will prosper in warm, dark and damp conditions. Changes to the way we live over the past few decades have provided ideal breeding conditions.
These nocturnal blood-suckers (Cimex Lectulariusti to give them their posh name) are a common problem and can be unwittingly transmitted to even the cleanest bedroom.
Not as well known as Salmonella or E.Coli, Campylobacter Jejuni is actually the bacterial critter that causes more than three quarters of all cases of food poisoning in the UK.
The bacterium is linked to a number of dangerous infections including meningitis, peritonitis, septicemia and pneumonia, as well as being responsible for the odour of faeces!
As well as making your home look like a biology experiment gone horribly wrong, mould growth can cause health problems, most seriously through the inhalation of mould spores that can cause serious complications to people with weak immune systems.
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