[Philip Lelyveld comment: Despite the eye-catching headline, the story concludes that the risk is minimal.]

[NBC Miami]

Get ready to cough up more money to see your favorite 3D movie: Sony has already announced it won’t give out free 3D glasses anymore, starting next May.

That means you’ll have to pick up the tab, unless your theatre decides to treat you.

But until then, you may be handed glasses that have been worn by someone else. And while you might not think twice about it, microbiologist Peter Kmieck says handling glasses is one way of moving “bacteria from place to place.”

So we took two pairs a clerk handed over at a 3D movie to get tested at his Kappa Laboratories in Miami.  …

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