Meanwhile, we mostly stopped talking about hand-washing. The days when you could hear people humming “Happy Birthday” in public restrooms quickly disappeared.

Or the trend could be caused by a longer lifetime of habits, said Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, who wasn’t involved in the research.

The annual survey queried 1,042 American adults online for three days last December about their hand-washing habits in public restrooms and concerns about germs, colds and the flu.

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