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Nonfiction Usage Journalism UsageNorovirus - News: February 19, 2007 - Headline: What Is Behind Outbreaks of Norovirus? Author: Melinda Smith. Excerpt: There is no available vaccine to stop the Norovirus. Dr. Schaffner says the best prevention is simple handwashing with warm water and soap. Now I'm mindful of the fact that around the world people have varying access to clean water and indeed to such simple implements as soap. But when that's available, that's a very, very effective way...
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Nonfiction Usage Journalism UsageNorovirus - News: February 19, 2007 - Headline: What Is Behind Outbreaks of Norovirus? Author: Melinda Smith. Excerpt: There is no available vaccine to stop the Norovirus. Dr. Schaffner says the best prevention is simple handwashing with warm water and soap. Now I'm mindful of the fact that around the world people have varying access to clean water and indeed to such simple implements as soap. But when that's available, that's a very, very effective way of interrupting transmission because our hands are what bring the virus to our mouths very, very often.Pakistan - News: July 30, 2005 - Headline: Study: Handwashing with Soap Can Reduce Fatal Diseases Among Children. Excerpt: A study from Pakistan shows that the simple act of handwashing with soap can sharply reduce the chances a child will get pneumonia and diarrhea, the two leading causes of childhood deaths in poor countries. But the practice will take much effort to promote. ... Diarrhea and respiratory tract infections kill 3.5 million children under age five each year. A study in the medical journal Lancet by U.S. and Pakistani public health experts shows that this number could be cut in half if handwashing with soap were common practice. ... In addition to the benefit against pneumonia and diarrhea, the Karachi study also shows that handwashing with soap lowered the incidence of the contagious skin infection impetigo by one-third. ... At the University of Geneva Hospital, hygiene expert Didier Pittet calls the study remarkable. While it measured only disease rates and not mortality, he says carrying out handwashing on a large scale would undoubtedly save millions of children's lives. ... Dr. Pittet notes that although soap in Karachi costs only one dollar per household per week, it is still expensive when family income averages only $15 a week. He suggests that soap and advice be provided free in developing nations, perhaps by a public-private partnership like the Central American Handwashing Initiative of the late 1990s. In that program, governments, donor agencies, and four soap companies cooperated to promote clean hands to fight diarrhea in the region, despite poor sanitation.United States - News: September 20, 2006 - Headline: Health Authorities Warn Americans Not to Eat Contaminated Spinach. Author: Carol Pearson. Excerpt: The spinach is chopped and washed and mixed together, then shipped throughout the United States. Health officials are telling Americans, for the time being, not to eat raw spinach and to practice good hygiene with plenty of handwashing.Governmental UsageTravel in Turkey. Neither do the accepted practices of frequent soapy handwashing or covering of the mouth when coughing or sneezing and then washing hands.Patent UsageHygiene monitoring system: Patented by Timothy D. Wildman, Dennis J. Gallant and Phill Hausman on October 1, 2000. Abstract: A method of monitoring hygiene compliance is provided. The method comprises the steps of receiving first location information which tracks movement and handwashing information, determining whether a person who has entered a patient contact zone has washed her hands since her most recent exposure to a contamination zone, and updating compliance information for the person based upon the determining step.Inhibition of the Asexual Reproduction of Fungi: Patented by Dirk BockmÜhl, Roland Breves, Mirko Weide and Michael Heinzel on December 16, 2002. Abstract: The invention relates to the use of monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes and/or diterpenes in addition to derivatives thereof for inhibiting the asexual reproduction of fungi and filter materials, building material, auxiliary building materials, textiles, fur, paper, skins or leather, and also washing agents, cleaning agents, rinsing agents, handwashing agents, agents for handwashing dishes, dishwasher agents, and agents for building materials, auxiliary building materials, textiles, fur, paper, skins or leath