As doctors say contaminated hands can cause many infectious diseases from one person to another, washing hands is the most effective way to prevent the infection from spreading when it comes to preventing viral infections, especially sending coughs and properly spreading through droplets.
Washing hands is always the first line remedy recently, the opinion given by doctors to reduce the outbreak of coronavirus, states that more hands should be washed properly.
New research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge aims to address the doubts that indicate how important a hand can be in slowing the spread of infectious diseases.
The Centres for Disease Control Prevention(CDC) Trusted Source says that it is very important for us to use soap to wash hands and we scrub it for at least 20 seconds by applying soap in our hands.
Because we don’t have any visible germs in our hands, we need to scrub our hands. Contaminated hands easily operate these germs, as stated by WHO(2006) hands should be washed before and after any patient comes around.
How germs get into the hands and make people sick
Human / Animal feces are an important source of bacteria such as Salmonella, E. coli O157, and norovirus that cause diarrhea, and can spread certain respiratory infections such as adenovirus and foot infections.
These germs can get into the hands after people use the toilet or change nappies, but also in subtle ways, such as after handling raw meat with invisible amounts of animal embryos.
One gram of human excrement – about the size of a piece of paper – can contain as much as 100 billion germs. Germs can also get into the hands when people come in contact with anything contaminated because someone coughs or sneezes or is touched by something dirty.