I could have lost an eye because I was accidentally poked in it by a guy who hadn't washed his hands after going to the lavatory. Luckily I have such active tear ducts, it flushed the majority of the bacteria out, but I did have a green and gungy eye for a week, and had to wear a patch over it for 2.

And there are more bacteria spread around hospitals by people who chew pens or carry them in their mouths and then lend the pens on to others.

I'm undergoing an industrial tribunal for taking too much time off sick, I have asthma, and am considered a high risk case for things like 'flu', which could quite literally kill me. Yet my former boss insisted on coming in to work with all the symptoms of the illness, last year, which gave me the cold that turned into a chest infection that gave me my last period of illness that she later sacked me for....... If you take your 'flu' to work and "struggle on", you could kill someone. Last weekend a healthy rugby player DIED of 'flu', who will be next??

LTS