Clean Crochet Hooks

I was changing purses and dumped the contents out, and saw one of my favorite crochet hooks - a golden one, drop out and it had a big glob of hardened cholcolate stuck on it.  Yuk!   I washed it with the dishes, and as I did so I began wondering about germs and stuff on crochet hooks.   I crochet everywhere - standing, waiting, eating lunch at work, in doc's waiting rooms -- hey that's where all the sick people come.  I touch the doorknobs, chairs in the doc's office.  Then I crochet.  sometimes, well, more than sometimes, I rub my eyes, and once in a while I do that other gross thing when no one can see me -- so all these germs and stuff could be transferred to me via the crochet hooks.   Sometimes on the bus or in the cafeteria I even drop my hook.. triple Yuk! 
  I learned a lot about transferring germs and washing hands during the couple of decades I worked in hospitals, so I know how very important this is.  I am wondering if anybody washes their crochet hooks too???