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...capital city - may have helped reduce the extent of the disease's spread. It's easy to become inured to the CDC's unrelenting stream of advice on hygiene - on April 30, we actually had the President of the United States use a news conference to tell Americans to wash their hands more - but there is evidence that such elementary actions can be remarkably effective in slowing the spread of infectious disease. (Studies have shown that towns that instituted similar measures during the 1918 flu had death rates that were considerably lower than the norm.) "I think [the government...
...Then Reo passed on what she was learning. Blogging as Team Reo on www.mom2momdfw.com, a blog set up by the Fort Worth Star Telegram, she has shared the ups and downs of dealing with a CHD baby and passed on basic hygiene tips: "People know how to wash their hands, they just don't do it long enough. So... Scrub with the soap for at least as long as it takes to sing "Happy Birthday!" She also added a YouTube video on the proper ways to sneeze. "Quite funny but educational! I love the different sneeze techniques...
...their doctor, to make sure the flu-like symptoms Andrea had been feeling recently weren't A/H1N1 - and that she, more than eight months pregnant, wouldn't infect the baby, which is due any day now. As they climbed out of the Tacubaya metro station, they stopped to wash their hands with disinfectant and drink fluids provided at stations set up all over town by the government. "Sometimes it feels like just one more thing going out of control for us in this country," says Benjamin. "The drug war, the economic crisis and now this. But I think...
...Ashbery brushes aside these critiques as overly analytical. “I don’t think it’s difficult if one lets it approach one the way one hears music, just letting it wash over you,” he says. “My poetry is like music in a way—it comes and happens over a period of time and leads you into it. You kind of live it for a while, as opposed to, say, a picture, which you look at for a few minutes and walk away from...
...touching eyes, nose, or mouth. They also make it difficult, in many ways, to hit on sick people, so no need to worry about getting dirty germs. And think of all that time you’ll save from not touching your face and not touching other people to wash your hands with soap! Genius idea, we know, but now how can you proceed in getting this necessary, life-saving object you wonder? FlyBy has taken the liberty to find local businesses that could help...