Maybe...but
...I think the next superbug will be a result of the craze here (in the "developed" world") to use antibacterials and chemicals on everything. It makes me sick! I grew up in a foreigh country and lived there for 20 years without dousing everything I touched with checmicals/antibacterials and guess what...I survived. I did however start getting sick after moving back to the states where even dish now soap is antibacterial. The bugs in our drains are more potent than anything on a mouse. In case you didn't know, there ARE already superbugs that no antibacterial (even the experimental ones) can beat. And it is a direct result of all the crap this society sprays all over the place to try to kill every bug.
When I walk over to or by a coworkers cubicle that has just finished "sanitizing" their area, I find myself gagging - usually a combo of febreeze, some kind of antibacterial and some clorox product - just awful. Whenever I want some entertainment, I go watch one of these goofballs rubbing down everything in their cubicle - it's comedy. If anyone really thinks a mouse or keyboard will kill them, have you ever sampled the air you breath? Start there. Do you go to malls? Movie theatres? Beaches? Amusement Parks? Outside your house? Your yard, perhaps? Ever grab/touch any doorknobs/handles? If people are really worried about a mouse or keyboard, then you might as well stay at home, in a bubble.
Listen folks, like one other person said, it is not such bad thing to be exposed to bugs - that's how your immune system stays active and healthy. Cleanliness is definitely a must, but having your cubicle or whatever space in your life be like and Intensive Care Unit is too much.
This extends even to medical care with doctors these days just prescribing antibiotics left and right for everything. If we die from a bug, it will be (99%) due to some bug that has mutated to fight off all the crap we throw at them. Hey, back to the foreign thing - people in villages in Africa somehow manage to live very long and happy lives walking barefoot everywhere and without "sanitizing" everything - and I'm willing to bet that any one of our sanitizing freaks over here will croak within a week or two of being over there...no immune system/ability to fight off even the most basic thing. Just one stat we should all look up...try and fing how many people take tons of antibiotics the minute they get a cold - a bunch - and it is not even a bactieria. It's a virus, yet we have all these donkeys out there taking these antibiotics and spraying antibacterials everywhere.
Anyway, sorry to get off on a rant - My two cents - probably only worth that much...ha ha.
