Blog links to an article in the Medical Journal of Australia from 2001″Books as carriers of disease.”
“In the early years of bacteriology, librarians, microbiologists and public health physicians were much exercised by the question of whether books could transmit infectious diseases. which pointed me back to an evidenced-based review that appeared in 1912 in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association.”
It makes sense that books could transmit germs from one person to another. Most people don’t wash their hands often enough and lots of people check out books from the library.