Wash, Wash, Wash Your Hands! by D. Mason

To wash or not to wash? That is the question.

books on sport medicine. I am not bragging about this but simply stating an easily verifiable fact. I had recently been reading a newspaper article that noted that the second biggest killer of children in the world is not malaria or tuberculosis, nor AIDS. It is diarrhoea. Over 2000 children die every single day throughout the world from this problem. The simplest solution to reducing this dise...

Integrating Wash and Nutrition

Undernutrition is the underlying cause of 45 percent of child deaths each year.1 The term undernutrition covers three primary anthropometric measures: stunting, which is low height for age; wasting, which is low weight for height; and underweight, which is low weight for age. Despite targeted and comprehensive nutrition-specific interventions, the persistent presence of undernutrition globally ...

Why don't doctors and nurses wash their hands?

For almost 150 years healthcare workers have been taught that cross-infections are transmissible but not contagious and that the most effective way to prevent these cross-infections is to wash their hands before and after every patient contact. But, they don't do it. They don't merely not do it every time, they don't do it most of the time and sometimes not even when it might be most expected, ...

The Power of Wash

Stay at home, wash your hands: epidemic dynamics with awareness of infection

This paper describes work in progress studying a cellular au-tomata model of epidemic dynamics on a spatial network. We assume that susceptible individuals become aware of the presence of infection within their local neighborhood, and change their behavior so as to reduce the risk of becoming infected. Two controls are considered: reducing the number of contacts (" staying at home "), and reduc...