Your dirty underwear is contaminating your fresh laundry

Fecal matter from your dirty underwear is probably still lurking in your fresh laundry, according to multiple studies. Even worse, one microbiologist has found that bacteria such as E.coli can survive the average laundry cycle. But despite the ick factor not all experts are worried, noting that exposure to bacteria makes our immune systems stronger. “The average adult undergarment has about a tenth of a gram of fecal matter,” Dr. Charles Gerba, renowned germ researcher and professor