Americans’ Concern for Skin Infections, Flu, Spreads Across the Countr
...tact or contact with contaminated surfaces. Proper handwashing is the simplest and most effective way to prevent ...nds. A full 90 percent of respondents believe that handwashing can help reduce the spread of a viral flu pandemic, and 87 percent believe hand hygiene can be helpf...Handwashing prevents diarrhea and acute lower respiratory infections
A study done in Pakistan has shown that handwashing with soap prevents the two clinical syndromes //wh...useholds that received plain soap and promotion of handwashing practice had a 50% lower incidence of pneumonia as compared to the control group. Similarly children...