Beer Pong Is a Pretty Filthy Game

iStock/Thinkstock(CLEMSON, S.C.) — Beer pong is a game of skill, a game of luck, a game that usually involves drinking too much.

Be that as it may, beer pong remains extremely popular on and off college campuses but Clemson University wanted to study an aspect of the game apart from the sociological phenomenon.

Basically, researcher Paul Dawson and his team concluded that beer pong is a pretty germy game that can involve the transmission of microbial pathogens, the stuff that causes disease.

Although the ping pong ball is touched by people’s hands and hits all kinds of surfaces, not including the table or cup, the Clemson researchers found out that fortunately, most of the microbes were not pathogenic. That’s the good news.

On the flip side, Dawson and his colleagues says the danger remains of transferring pathogens from fecal particles and all the diseases associated with them.

Meanwhile, in a separate experiment, they also inoculated ping pongs with a non-pathogenic form of E.coli and reported a 100 percent rate of it being transferred among players.

Obviously, this study probably won’t put a dent in the popularity of beer pong but it might get a few people thinking about other hygienic alternatives.


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