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- New Study Demonstrates Simple Handwashing with Soap Can Save Childrens Lives (07/14/2005, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Overviews
- Overviews
- Stopping Germs at Home, Work and School (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Also available in: Spanish
Specific Conditions
- Specific Conditions
- Dogs, Cats and Other Pets: Protect Your Family from Infection (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Hand Hygiene for Consumers (Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology) - Links to PDF
- Hand Hygiene Guidelines (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Ounce of Prevention: Keeps the Germs Away (National Center for Infectious Diseases)
- Questions and Answers for Swimmers (National Center for Infectious Diseases, Division of Parasitic Diseases)
- Stopping the Spread of Germs at Work (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - In English and Spanish
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Related Issues
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- Answers to Your Questions about the Hazards of Antibacterial Cleaners (College of American Pathologists)
Clinical Trials
- Clinical Trials
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Communicable Diseases (National Institutes of Health)
Research
- Research
- Antibacterial Products Don't Reduce Risk of Infection (Nemours Foundation)
- Hand-Washing Practices and Beliefs of Physicians (American College of Physicians)
- Study of Hygiene in Inner-City Households Identifies What Helps and What May Not (National Institute of Nursing Research)
- Using Alcohol-Based Hand Gels Could Help Families Avoid Respiratory Illnesses (Nemours Foundation)
Organizations
- Organizations
- National Center for Infectious Diseases
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Children
- Children
- Just Look at Those Hands (Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition)
- Scrub Club (NSF International)
- What Are Germs? (Nemours Foundation)
Also available in: Spanish - Why Do I Need to Wash My Hands? (Nemours Foundation)
Also available in: Spanish
Women
- Women
- What You Can Do to Keep Germs from Harming You or Your Baby (National Center for Infectious Diseases) - Links to PDF