Ms Winstanley, of NHSBT's Tissue and Eye Services, told the Press Association: "It is a phenomenon which we call the 'yuck factor' - some people are squeamish about eyes.
PYJAMAS YUCK The average 18 to 30-year-old man wears the same pyjamas for 13 nights and young women 17 nights before washing them, according to a recent survey.
With surprisingly resilient bristles and a sugar-free, liquid-filled "freshening bead," the Wisp gives you a just-brushed feeling in peppermint, spearmint or cinnamon and is designed to ferret out yuck from all corners.
Yuck! A Foldout Book of People Sounds, Newbery Award-winning author Linda Sue Park and co-writer Julia Durango explore the sounds people make in different languages.
(Plus, on general principle, yuck!) Microbiologic culture and polymerase chain reaction were used to determine carriage rates among dogs and their humans in a study reported in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
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