Keeping hands clean is one of the best ways to prevent the spread of infection and illness including the deadly Ebola Virus.
Hand washing is easy to do and it’s one of the most effective ways to prevent the spread of many types of infections and illness in all settings—from your home and workplace to child care facilities and hospitals.
Clean hands can stop germs (bacteria, viruses ,fungi etc) from spreading from one person to another and throughout an entire community.
When should you wash your hands?
Before, during, and after preparing food and before eating food
Before and after caring for someone who is sick.
Before and after treating a cut or wound.
After using the toilet
After changing diapers or cleaning up a child who has used the toilet.
After blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.
After touching an animal, animal feed, or animal waste.
After touching garbage.
What is the right way to wash your hands?
- Wash your hands with clean, running water (warm or cold), turn off the tap, and apply soap.
- Lather your hands by rubbing them together with the soap. Be sure to lather the backs of your hands, between your fingers, and under your nails.
- Scrub your hands for at least 20 seconds.
- Rinse your hands well under clean, running water.
- Dry your hands using a clean towel or air dry them.
What should you do if you don’t have soap and clean, running water?
Washing hands with soap and water is the best way to reduce the number of germs on them in most situations. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitiser that contains at least 60 per cent alcohol.
Alcohol-based hand sanitisers can quickly reduce the number of germs on hands in some situations, but sanitisers do not eliminate all types of germs.
Hand sanitisers are not as effective when hands are visibly dirty or greasy.
How do you use hand sanitisers?
- Apply the product to the palm of one hand.
- Rub your hands together.
- Rub the product over all surfaces of your hands and fingers until your hands are dry.
In conclusion, the take home message from the professorial lecture includes: The virus is easily killed by contact with soap, bleach, sunlight, or drying. A washing machine will kill the virus in clothing saturated with infected body fluids.
As always, practice good hand washing techniques, but you will not contract Ebola if you do not touch a very ill or dying person.
Please share this information with your friends and families and try not to spread panic on social media.
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