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How to Clean Your Earbuds, Because They're Even Grosser Than You Think

Fungus and yeast infection-causing germs can build upon the earbuds as you jam them inside your ear canals, not to mention wax that visibly sticks to their surfaces. After sending an earbud swab out for analysis, Inside Edition even found pneumonia-causing bacteria such as staph aureus on regularly used earbuds, and one set showed evidence of almost one million different bacteria cultures. Part of