A study conducted by Vision Direct swabbed poles and seats of each of the tube lines, as well as three escalator handrails in busy stations.
In a stomach-churning discovery, it found an unsettling range of bacteria to which tube riders are exposing themselves.
The swabs found a staggering 16,000 colony-forming units (CFU) of E.coli on the Victoria line seats.
Meanwhile, the Metropolitan line housed traces of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (400 CFU) and Faecal Streptococci – bacteria found in the digestive tracts of humans and animals – and enterococci on the seats (960 CFU) and poles (80 CFU).
Pseudomonas aeruginosa was also spotted on an Oxford Circus escalator handrail (720 CFU), the Northern line seats (200 CFU), and the…
