Scientists in Britain have said that Computer keyboards can be breeding grounds for E. coli and other hazardous organisms.

The Royal Society of Chemistry said that some keyboards in London offices showed traces of E. coli, coliforms and enterobacteria, which most likely were transmitted by mice and other vermin attracted to food morsels trapped between keys.

Researchers also said that office workers eat over their keyboards and drop crumbs by day and the vermin move in at night, leaving feces and disease.

The New York Daily News reported on Friday that workers can get sick by typing on a fouled keyboard and then picking up food or touching their faces with unwashed hands.

He eats at his keyboard a lot and has never cleaned the crumbs that fall between the keys, Graphic designer Jean-Pierre Chery, 27, of New York, said.

Chery told the News, "I've got a whole ecosystem going on at the bottom of my keyboard right now." (With Inputs from Agencies)