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Pillow Name: ICK-A-CHOO • Gender: Male • Location: Florida • Year: Sophomore • Pillow Age: 2+ Years • Total Potential Viable Bacteria: 350,000 • Total Potential Viable Yeast and Mold: 370,000 • Case History: His name alone will make you sneeze but make sure to cover your mouth because his combined bacteria/yeast/mold counts will blow your mind (or your nose). Pillow Name: YEAST FEAST • Gender: Male • Location: Mississippi • Year: Senior • Pillow Age: 10 Years • Total Potential Viable Bacteria: 570,000 • Total Potential Viable Yeast & Mold: 380,000 • Case History: This sophomore is the BMOC (Big Mold on Campus) with a yeast and mold count through the roof. This organism is growing, growing, and should be gone – straight to the dump. Pillow Name: BLACK MOLD MONGER • Gender: Male • Location: Hawaii • Year: Senior • Pillow Age: Five Years • Total Potential Viable Bacteria: 120,000 • Total Potential Viable Yeast & Mold: 110,000 • Case History: Don’t let this guy near your fruits - or your ears for that matter – because he’s know to spread disease and infection wherever he turns. Pillow Name: CRATER HATER • Gender: Female • Location: Florida • Year: Sophomore • Pillow Age: Eight months • Total Potential Viable Bacteria: 120,000 • Total Potential Viable Yeast & Mold: 30,000 • Case History: This cutie takes her cues from tight or restrictive shoe wear, which cause her to create crater-like pits on the skin surface. Pillow Name: FOOD WASTER • Gender: Female • Location: Ohio • Year: Sophomore Pillow Age: 8 Years • Total Potential Viable Bacteria: 370,000 • Total Potential Viable Yeast & Mold: 13,000 • Case History: This fem fatale contains a fatal organism found in raw and unprocessed foods, dried foods, spices, cereals, milk and other dairy products. Pillow Name: BACTERITRON • Gender: Female • Location: West Virginia • Year: Sophomore • Pillow Age: One Year • Total Potential Viable Bacteria: 5,400,000 • Total Potential Viable Yeast & Mold: 380,000 • Case History: An outlier among her peers, this lady just keeps growing and growing…so don’t leave her alone or in a dark room to fester. Pillow Name: NOT SO FRESHMAN • Gender: Female • Location: Florida • Year: Freshman • Pillow Age: 2+ Years • Total Potential Viable Bacteria: 130,000 • Total Potential Viable Yeast & Mold: 56,000 • Case History: She may be a young babe, but she’s as far from fresh as you get. And that’s not just because she’s teaming with bacteria – she’ll also packs a foul odor. Pillow Name: MONSIEUR BIOHAZARD • Gender: Male • Location: Tennessee • Year: Junior • Pillow Age: 5 Years • Total Potential Viable Bacteria: 480,000 • Total Potential Viable Yeast & Mold: 210,000 • Case History: Don’t be confused by his debonair name, this world traveler is teaming with bacteria that is typically associated with a hospital stay. Pillow Name: SWEATY BETTY • Gender: Female • Location: Ohio • Year: Sophomore • Pillow Age: 2-3 Years Total Potential Viable Bacteria: 200,000 • Total Potential Viable Yeast & Mold: 160,000 • Case History: This hot lady will work you into a sweat when you imagine the amount of mold and bacteria growing on her. Luckily most of the yeast strains found here are some of the most common organisms in our environment. Pillow Name: COOTIE COLLECTOR • Gender: Female Location: California • Year: Senior • Pillow Age: 3 Years • Total Potential Viable Bacteria: 1,100,000 • Total Potential Viable Yeast & Mold: 41,000 • Case History: She may wash regularly, but this collector of sorts is known to scoop up bacteria and whatnot while traipsing around campus.
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Each fall, college students pack up and make the trek back to campus. Do you think they’ve ever stopped to wonder what’s living in the pillow they’ve loved since they were wee tots? We gathered 50 pillows and 9 mattress pads from college students around the U.S. and sent them to a third-party testing lab, to find out.
