Washing your hands is a given if you want to avoid germs—but it's especially important after touching these microbe magnets.

In the realm of frontline healthcare, where the well-being of both patients and healthcare workers hangs in the balance, there is a heightened vulnerability of healthcare workers (HCWs) to ...

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Hand-washing adherence is on the up-and-up as more hospitals are holding their leadership accountable for hand hygiene, patient safety watchdog The Leapfrog Group reports. Since it began collecting ...

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The Daejin Medical Foundation Bundang Jesaeng Hospital (Hospital Director Na Hwa-yeop) recently held a fun infection control ...

Wash your hands. We have all been told this countless times. I have consistently written wash your hands in any article about infectious diseases and with good reason. It is estimated that if everyone ...

Observed each year on October 15, Global Handwashing Day reminds safety professionals and employees that proper hand hygiene remains one of the simplest, most effective defenses against illness in the ...

Way back in the early, whirlwind days of the pandemic, surfaces were the thing to worry about. The prevailing scientific wisdom was that the coronavirus spread mainly via large droplets, which fell ...

According to the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, about 80 percent of infectious diseases are spread by dirty hands. The CDC estimates that so far this season, there have been 1,900 ...