Wash Your Hands or Pay the Consequences!
Written by Ann Pietrangelo on October 16th, 2009 in Health Care Policy, In The News, Linked Articles.
Photo: Centers for Disease Control
October 15 was Global Handwashing Day — seriously. And it is a serious matter — clean hands save lives!
A study published by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine indicates that less than one-third of men and two-thirds of women wash their hands with soap after using the restroom! Well that’s fairly disgusting. Researchers studied the behavior of a quarter of a million people using restrooms in Britain, and used sensors to monitor soap use.
Hand washing is the simplest — and cheapest — way to avoid getting sick, helping to prevent the common cold, diarrheal diseases, respiratory infections, MRSA, food-borne illnesses such as salmonella and E. coli, and of course, the swine flu (H1N1), among other things.
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