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• Afghanistan, Kabul: toilet tribulations

  
  WASH news Asia & Pacific — Authority: 119
  For Kabul’s estimated population of 4-5 million there are only 35 public toilets, according to the municipal authorities. “We need at least 65 extra public latrines in Kabul immediately,” Nesar Ahmad Habibi, head of Kabul’s waste management authority, told IRIN, adding that the lack of government action and ...
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• Report: Illinois hepatitis A outbreak would have been prevented with proper handwashing (and vaccination)

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 434
  The Illinois Health Department has concluded its investigation into this summers hepatitis A outbreak and found that most of the cases originated at the Milan McDonalds and most of the cases “would have been prevented” if only that one employee had properly washed hands. The findings of the investigation by ...
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• Feeding birds on Thanksgiving

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 434
  I enjoyed a nice thanksgiving with my family in Wichita this year. After an enjoyable Thanksgiving lunch, complete with turkey, potatoes, green been casserole, and all the holiday staples, we decided to walk off our turkey coma by visiting the park. My parents live close to Sedgwick County Park in Wichita, KS; we ...
  6 days ago

• Cook the turkey to 165F, but what about the handwashing? And I thought turkeys could fly - WKRP edition

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 434
  Handwashing maven Michéle Samarya-Timm of the Somerset County Health Department (New Jersey, represent), writes:  Thanksgiving…time for perennial traditions in my home such as laying out the thermometers, refilling the soap dispenser in the kitchen and bath, and gathering some videos for family-friendly viewing. ...
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• Why Cruise Ships Can Make You Sick

  
  Dr. Fitness and the Fat Guy — Authority: 131
  In today’s Wellness Minute Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy details how you can protect yourself from cruise ship germs. A recent report on the cleanliness of cruise public bathrooms uncovered some disturbing things. While the bathrooms look visibly clean only about half the bathrooms were properly disinfected. The germs ...
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• Kyle swims through pee; South Park kids debate handwashing

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 434
  nuff said.
  2 weeks ago

• Fighting cholera in Zambia

  
  Fieldnotes — Authority: 124
  School visit in Lusaka, Zambia for UNICEF-supported cholera campaign - “Your life is in your hands” When we arrived at the Twalumba Basic School we are immediately greeted by the District Commissioner, Ms. Christah Kalulu. Ms. Kalulu explained that the students were waiting patiently to see Banja, a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Musical Hand Wash Timers in Disney Themes

  
  The Mom Reviews — Authority: 518
  Articles are published daily on the concerns over swine flu and ways to protect ourselves and our children. And of course there was this weekend’s most recent announcement as well. Pediatricians, the Centers For Disease Control (CDC), and other experts have established guidelines for washing your hands. While Hand ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gates Foundation awards $10.9 million to study impacts of sanitation on diseases

  
  WASH News International — Authority: 112
  Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have received a five-year, $10.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to evaluate several interventions to combat diarrheal disease in developing countries. Dr. Jack Colford Dr. Jack Colford , professor of epidemiology at UC ...
  3 weeks ago

• Handwashing for nerds: Are those Dysan jet dryers better than paper towel?

  
  BarfBlog — Authority: 434
  Amy, Sorenne and I spent a long last weekend in San Francisco, where Amy conferenced, I had some meetings, but mainly just hung out with the kid (three pirates and a little girl, right). The washrooms at the San Francisco airport featured the Dysan airblade , billed as the “fastest, most hygienic hand dryer.” ...
  3 weeks ago

• More Hand-washing Headlines

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 132
  After I wrote my "Typhoid Mary" post the other day, I took a look at my hospitals Web site, and right there front and center on the homepage was this: H1N1 UPDATE Our goal during the flu pandemic is to keep you and your family safe and healthy And then links to pages on visitor restrictions and tips on how to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Do you know what you’re touching?!

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 542
  Yes, I know. It’s anal. Even slightly creepy. But it makes sense. I freely admit that I am one of those people who hangs around in public toilets waiting for someone else to come in or go out so I don’t have to touch the door handle. Or performing acrobats so I can use my [...]
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• The Golden Poo Awards. Really.

  
  Thirsty in Suburbia — Authority: 418
  Toilet humor (humour) has moved out of the school yard and into the studios of some of the UK’s most creative animators. I thought I was good at the potty puns and chuckles, but the threshold has been raised to astounding heights with the winners of the short film “ Golden Poo Awards ” announced October 15th. In ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Servant, The Word, and Traditions of Men

  
  FIRE AND HAMMER — Authority: 119
  Mark 7:1-37 “1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. 2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. 3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat ...
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• Nepal: Sanitation finally a priority

  
  WASH news Asia & Pacific — Authority: 119
  The diarrhoea that spread earlier in 2009 in 18 districts across Nepal killed nearly 300 people; nearly six months after the initial outbreak, four ministries have finally made a joint commitment to launch a massive water and sanitation campaign to meet the state’s target of providing complete sanitation to all by ...
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• IFH – Use of ash and mud for handwashing

  
  Sanitation Updates — Authority: 472
  Use of ash and mud for handwashing in low income communities . 2009. (pdf, 480KB) Professor Sally F. Bloomfield; Professor Kumar Jyoti Nath. International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene (IFH). Epidemiological and microbiological data show that, in low income communities, as elsewhere, handwashing is particularly ...
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• TWiV 56: Perspicuously perspicacious

  
  virology blog — Authority: 423
  Hosts : Vincent Racaniello , Dick Despommier , Alan Dove , and Cliff Mintz On episode #56 of the podcast ‘This Week in Virology”, Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Cliff answer questions from listeners on swine influenza origins, transmission, virulence, and vaccines, HIV and AIDS, and more. ...
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• West Africa: stopping cholera emergencies

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 126
  Cholera outbreaks in West Africa generally trigger extra hand-washings in households and panic-buying of bleach for treating water. But beating the deadly – but easily preventable – illness requires that such hygiene practices become routine, health experts say. Researchers with the London School of Hygiene and ...
  5 weeks ago

• What Makes a Man Wash His Hands?

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 804
  Filed under: Woman Up Disgust. A British study of 250,000 people using public restrooms showed that men washed their hands half as often (32 percent of the time) as women (64 percent) did.   Permalink  |  Email this  |  Linking Blogs  |  Comments
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