Hand washing and disinfection are important hygiene practices to minimize the probability of catching infectious diseases. Interestingly, our hands also have a natural barrier that fights off ...

In the post-COVID era, hand hygiene has taken on greater importance in our daily lives. The pandemic served as a stark reminder of how crucial proper handwashing is in preventing the spread of ...

Hand hygiene remains a cornerstone of infection prevention in healthcare settings, vital for curtailing the transmission of multidrug‐resistant organisms and reducing the incidence of ...

Background Foodborne diseases are an important cause of global morbidity and mortality, particularly among children who often ...

Efforts to improve handwashing don’t always include basics of access to soap + water Lack of hand hygiene causes annual 740,000 deaths from diarrhoea or respiratory infections But despite global ...

Josephine Awino, a mother of three steps on a wooden stick tied to a water container hanging from a stick erected at the entrance of her home at her home in North Sakwa in Siaya. She picks a soap ...

UD’s Cooperative Extension Health and Well-being team brings you food safety information to help protect against foodborne illness all year long. Foodborne illness occurs when food is contaminated ...

Denmark has topped a list of 10 countries when looking at hand hygiene practices during meal preparation. The rank of countries regarding proper hand hygiene practices was: Denmark, Greece, Norway, ...

Every year, May 5 marks World Hand Hygiene Day, an initiative by the World Health Organization (WHO) to remind everyone—from healthcare professionals to the general public—about the critical role that ...