Certain areas of your home or office are dirtier than others, like toilet seats and trash cans. However, your phone, pile of laundry, and even grocery carts are covered in bacteria that can lead to infections.

We touch our phones nearly 100 times a day – but experts warn the devices harbor 10 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat.

That coffee cup sitting in the office could be crawling with E. coli, which sickens more than 250,000 Americans every year.

And even blowing out the candles on your birthday cake spreads more than 1,000 strains of germs.