What illnesses have you gotten from grocery store cart handles?

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answer:@Aster We don’t think it was from a grocery cart, but a computer keyboard: My husband came home and nearly died from meningitis. Almost no one disinfects their keyboard…and rarely do people at companies clean their hands after bathroom breaks, picking their noses, scratching themselves, etc. My husband had to learn the hard way that he needed to protect himself.

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