What is The Common Cold & How Does It Spread in Schools?
How Does Common Cold Spreads in Schools & Other Crowded Places? The common cold is an acute viral infection of the upper respiratory tract. The upper respiratory tract includes the nose, sinuses, throat (pharynx), and larynx. Schools are high-risk environments for the transmission of the common cold and other viruses due to close student interactions, […]
Fecal-Oral Infections & Handwashing: Stop Silent Spreading Now
Handwashing is one of the most overlooked yet powerful tools in preventing infectious diseases, including fecal-oral diseases. One common misconception is that if a person uses the washroom and doesn’t wash their hands, they are only putting themselves at risk. In reality, viral and bacterial diarrheal infections do not just affect the individual. They put […]
How Do Infections Spread in Schools? Things You Should Know
By Richard Criley & Dr. Jasminka Vukanovic-Criley. Whether it’s the common cold, flu, stomach flu or more serious illnesses, understanding how diseases spread in schools can help educators, parents, and students take effective preventive measures.
National Handwashing Week: A Simple Habit for a Healthier Life
National Handwashing Awareness Week is a week-long event that highlights the significance of hand hygiene. Proper hand hygiene can reduce the spread of infections, especially during peak illness seasons like winter. Handwashing is a seemingly simple habit. Nonetheless, a number of people still did not develop this routine skill into a habit.
What Are Correct Hand Washing Steps? Find Your Indelible Hand Washing Score
Are you washing your hands properly? Hand washing is a habit. Hand washing is a skill. Hand washing is something that you do every day, often, without even thinking about it. Hand washing is probably one of those automatic things you do in your everyday life, like tying your shoes. At the beginning of the […]
How Do People Wash Their Hands In Restaurant’s Restroom? Quick Observation.
It is easy to see how even well-meaning people do not do a good enough job washing their hands.