He waited until he got to the bathroom to wash his hands? IAAC also, and that means that every door handle he touched on the way to the bathroom probably has some lab chemicals on it.

That said, the worst thing one can see in a chemistry building/lab (or bio, biochem, and any other wet lab) is someone wearing gloves outside of a lab and interacting with the environment. That means everything they touched since they put those gloves on (like nasty chemicals or biohazards) is now spread to public "glove-less" areas. I have a tendency to upbraid people who I see walking down the hall in nitrile or latex gloves. Nothing like touching a restroom door handle and then brushing your nose and smelling something that unmistakably came from a bottle of lab chemicals. It has happened to me before.

"At twenty-five atmospheres, calling it an ideal gas is kind of an insult."

(From my undergraduate physical chemistry prof)

Does the direct injection of large sums of money also work for simians?

Have a worldwide online poll to name it, and allow write-in submissions...

I think I might actually write in "Xenu flu" for that. It even rhymes!