Wash your hands - please!
Good hygiene habits are always important, even more so when you are around others with contagious illnesses. Whether you are at home, school, work or out in public, the opportunities to contract a communicable disease are many. This is particularly true with the recent outbreak of swine flu the CDC (Center For Disease Control at cdc.gov) has taken action against. It has been classified as a public health emergency, so wash your hands regularly and, if you know you’re going to be around people you have been exposed, make sure they’re wearing a face mask. It’s common courtesy and it’s safe.
Steven Reinberg reports for Healthfinder that the swine flu site at cdc.gov states that not only have they declared a public health emergency, but that the European Union has advised its citizens against “nonessential travel to the United States or Mexico.” That has caused fuel, transportation and other tourism-related stocks to plummet on Wall Street, but drug stocks like those of Novavax (
No comments:
Post a Comment