Hand washing may not prevent spread of influenza

Duh!!

This is why there is also an extensive health awareness campaign concerning how to cough correctly and use the proper masks in the health care setting. The article does not say handwashing is useless as the title might suggest.

Current evidence suggests flu viruses are mainly transmitted at a short range of one to two metres by inhaling particles from someone who is infected. The virus can also survive on surfaces, and theoretically could be transmitted by contaminated hands and surfaces, according to the report.

Handwashing recommendations are therefore based on practicality rather than evidence, says the report, which is based on the findings of a 13-member panel of experts chaired by Dr. Donald Low, microbiologist-in-chief at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.

Low wasn't available for an interview on Thursday, but he told the journal that handwashing, "is a simple thing to do and it may protect you from some other illnesses."
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Masks get dislodged and people take them off to breathe.

Remember the headlines in the early Nineties that it was found latex exam gloves would not prrtect you against HIV? Basis was that microcopic pores in latex colud theoretically admit single pure viral particles the size of HIV.
In the real world, are single pure viral particles common ourside a military lab or Iranian baby formula factory?
ANd should one somehow thread through then latex, it would need to still be vital, hard to do when you're so small becuase you tend to be dessicated or destroyed by abient light.
And it would have to find a port of entry past your skin etc. at the latex tunnel.

There's lots of other things out there handwashing stops, and 221 nurses is a very slim sample. mre data, and pass the soap and water.
 
Masks get dislodged and people take them off to breathe.

delete sorry internet porbnlems
 
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What? Next your going to tell me that cold weather doesn't cause the flu, or that homeopathy doesn't work, or that hair doesn't grow back thicker after you shave it ;)
 
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