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Health Updates
National Handwashing Awareness Week
December 6-12
The single most important way you can prevent the spreading of infection is through handwashing (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Hand-transmission is a critical factor in the spread of bacteria and viruses causing disease such as colds, flu and foodborne illness. Hand-transmission occurs when you touch your eyes, nose or mouth after touching food or other objects carrying germs. Other more serious diseases can also be spread through this type of contact including hepatitis A, meningitis, and infectious diarrhea.
Four Principles of Germ Prevention:
- Wash your hands when they are visibly dirty and before eating
- Do not cough into your hands
- Do not sneeze into your hands
- Do not put your fingers in your eyes, nose or mouth
Excerpted from Spread the word, not the germs!! by Dr. William Sawyer and www.henrythehand.com/ and Winning Health Center at web.stlawu.edu/health/hands.htm
World AIDS Day
December 1
December 1st is World AIDS Day, a day to remind us of the World AIDS Campaign for the fulfillment of the 2001 UN Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and subsequent policy commitments on AIDS under the banner "Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise". For more information visit: www.unaids.org/en/default.asp
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