50% of soda fountains found to have fecal bacteria

"A ...Hollins University...study has shown that nearly half of all soda fountain machines have a bacteria found in fecal matter.

• The study found that 48% of all of the soda fountains tested in fast food places came up positive for this form of fecal bacteria, called coliform.
  

Eleven percent of the actual beverages contained Escherichia coli (E coli). Other organisms that can make you sick that were found either in the beverages themselves

• or on/in the fountains include Staphylococcus, Stenotrophomonas, Candida and Serratia.
  

In further testing the bacteria found were resistance to one of the eleven antibiotics tested on them."...