By Courtney Hutchison

3D movie glasses make you feel like you can reach out and touch the action, but you may be making contact of a different kind when you wear them — with the germs of those who wore or handled the glasses before you.

3D glasses given out at cinemas were found to be contaminated with bacteria that can cause conjunctivitis, skin infections, food poisoning, or even sepsis or pneumonia, but docs say that the germs found are no more threatening than what you find on the arm rest, box of popcorn, or movie seats.

Though most cinemas say the glasses are cleaned in between uses, Good Housekeeping tested glasses at seven theaters in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut area and found that not one of them was sterile.

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