How Dirty Can Your Humidifier Get if Not Cleaned Regularly?

Singer Katie Boggs says she got so sick in college she lost her voice and had to change careers. According to Boggs, her illness remained a mystery until she opened her humidifier. She says her doctors told her the dirty humidifier was making her sick. Software sales analyst Andrew Snyder-Spak says he and his girlfriend cleaned their humidifier only once a year. Inside Edition swabbed his humidifier and sent it to Micrim Labs in Florida for testing. His humidifier had a bacteria count of 4.8 million. Inside Edition’s Lisa Guerrero has more.