Washing Hands Properly Helps Stop Spread of Contagious Diseases

Wednesday, June 3, 2009 - 09:21 in Health & Medicine

We all know that coughs and sneezes spread diseases – and that we should wash our hands to prevent passing on nasty viruses and bacteria. But how many of us just flick our hands under a dribbling tap and think that will do? Now hopeless hand washers will be caught – not red-handed - but with glowing green fingers, by a new good hand washing test.

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