Thanks for the replies. I have not got sick yet so I am assuming that I am going to be ok now and that it was just a case of being smelly and not germy. I only worry more about that sort of stuff because when I worked in a hospital microbiology laboratory one of the local restaurants had to be shut down/quarantined because there had been a norovirus outbreak (we used to get at least 5 stool samples a day from people that had eaten at this particular restaurant and upon testing for bacteria they would come back as negative, but turns out that it was noro causing the *d and *v) and it finally turned out that was because the dishwasher had become contaminated with the virus. :/ I guess this was an isolated incident though because like you said, a lot of people do not clean theirs and are absolutely fine.

And Mamafear, really? That does sounds horrible. It is understandable that your anxiety was going through the roof. But you all survived so that is good. I would have thought that her being a microbiologist, she would have known better? Or maybe she knows something we don't.