WASHING HANDS:

Who knew You've heard before how important washing your hands is in order to stop contagious germs and infectious Nipawin Journal
Who knew By Melissa Mangelsen Journal Staff You've heard before how important washing your hands is in order to stop contagious germs and infectious diseases, but did you know that there is a whole week dedicated to scrubbing between your fingers and cleaning under your nails?
Selling Germaphobia Hartford Courant
Pop Culture Producers Feed The Public's Passion For All Things Antibacterial On a recent visit to a New York theater, a woman monopolized the single working sink in the ladies' lavatory, washing her hands not once, not twice but three times as a queue of women eager to make curtain time swelled behind her. It seemed that every time our scrubber touched the faucet valves, she felt required to
Washing Off Christmas Tree Helps Curb Allergies Hartford Courant
Q: My son and I have suffered yearly from allergies when we bring our freshly cut Christmas tree into the house. We have tried rinsing off the tree at home and letting it dry in the closed garage before setting it up, but the allergies still whacked us for weeks as soon as the tree came in the house. This was going to be the last year for our family tree-cutting tradition unless something
Safe food-handling Sun-Sentinel
Wash up. Clean hands with soap before and after handling food. Pay special care to washing after touching raw meats. Clean foods. Scrub or vigorously rinse before preparation, especially if serving raw. Washing will not always remove all contaminants, such as E. coli bacteria.
Survey: Hand washing is vital for children Asheville Citizen-Times
ASHEVILLE -- Nearly half of elementary school teachers say it's harder to get students to use soap when washing their hands than it is to get them to do their homework, a recent survey found.
There's a Reason Why This Week Is National Hand-Washing Week; Learn About It From the Experts Who Created SquidSoap, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
There's a reason why this week -- December 3 to 9 -- is National Hand-Washing Week.
Schools focus on cleaning hands Bradenton Herald
People can keep illnesses at bay and do the public a service by simply washing their hands.
Chinese sweep up Hoover vacuum cleaners Daily Telegraph
The iconic vacuum cleaner company has fallen into Chinese hands just a year after a Chinese bid for its parent company was rebuffed.
E. coli outbreak concerns Calif. farmers AP via Yahoo! News
An E. coli outbreak that has sickened nearly five dozen people in the Northeast is prompting concern among West Coast farmers after officials announced that scallions suspected as carriers of the bacteria came from a Southern California farm.
Students learn that being clean kills germs The Steubenville Herald-Star
WINTERSVILLE — Learning how to properly wash your hands is extremely important, especially now that the cold and flu season has returned to the Tri-State Area.
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