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Prevent Virus Transmission - Wash Your Hands
Hand washing with soap goes a long way in preventing avian influenza: UN
According to researches, hands are the most common mode of disease transmission, and one of the common ways people catch the flu is by rubbing their noses after their hands have been contaminated with the flu virus.
So most people wash their hands before eating, right? Wrong, surveys suggest at the most sixty percent of people take the time to do this simple yet effective step, and of course not everyone has access to either soap or clean water.
Still, the influenza virus and the H5N1 Avian flu variation can remain on surfaces for several hours and get into the body through hand contact to the mouth, nose or eyes. For those who can, hand washing and personal hygiene are a simple but very effective help to stop the spread of what is turning out to be a very deadly disease.
In Vietnam where a current outbreak of Bird Flu has authorities nervous, experts are campaigning for hand washing. “Frequent hand washing with soap may help us reduce the risk of bird flu,” one such advert says. Proper hand washing takes us only 15-20 seconds. Because a bar of soap costs relatively little, it’s a small amount for prevention preferable to spending a larger amount on doctors.
More details of this and other personal hygiene tips are on our main web-site, www.xodigo.com/h5n1/prevent.htm, but the bottom line is, washing your hands with soap frequently helps prevent bird flu transmission.
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