Ready to have your mind blown? Woman's horrifying experiment reveals fungi and bacteria that bathroom dryers

Nichole Ward, who appears to work in some sort of scientific lab in Carlsbad, California, took to Facebook last week to share the troubling results of an experiment.

The photo she posted, which has now gone viral, shows a Petri dish packed with fungi and bacteria after it had been put inside a hand dryer for just three minutes. When Nichole originally shared the post she said that she had conducted the experiment with a Dyson Airblade, however she later removed the brand's name from her post.

'Ok guys... ready to have your mind blown?!' she began. 'This here is what grew in a Petri dish after just a few days.'

The image shows a Petri dish with several things growing quite large in it after just 48 hours. She went on to explain that the dish has 'several strains of possible pathogenic fungi and bacteria' which end up on the hands of people who use enclosed hand dryers.

Pathogenic fungi and bacteria are those that cause disease.

'I stuck the open plate in an enclosed hand dryer of a public bathroom for a total of 3 minutes. Yes 3 only. DO NOT EVER dry your hands in those things again,' she added.

Later, she mentioned Dyson, which has hand dryer models that are enclosed - although she later removed the reference after the post went viral around the world.

The dryers she previously referenced, however, see the user stick his or her hands in through the top, while air blows at the front and back.

Nichole's post has since been shared over a half a million times, and she has said that even she was surprised that the results were so bad.

'I've used it so many times but so glad I know now. From now on I just wash and scrub, and dry on my clothes or shake and air dry OUTSIDE of the bano,' she said.

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