On the occasion of 'World Handwashing Day' on October 15, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the results of a 2025 survey on infectious disease prevention behavior ...

October 15th is global hand washing day (see here). Yes, such a day truly exists! It might sound frivolous to designate a global day to highlight the importance of this practice. However, the reality ...

India, May 4 -- World Hand Hygiene Day is observed every year on May 5 to promote the importance of clean hands in preventing infections. The World Health Organization leads this global campaign to ...

Way back in the early, whirlwind days of the pandemic, surfaces were the thing to worry about. The prevailing scientific wisdom was that the coronavirus spread mainly via large droplets, which fell ...

Hand Hygiene Day: Regularly washing hands is important for safety of healthcare workersiStock World Hand Hygiene Day is observed on May 5 across the world. Properly washing hands is an effective way ...

People were washing their hands so much early in the pandemic that sensitive skin and soap shortages were common problems in 2020. All this focus on hand-washing was for good reason. The science ...

Only one in three adolescents are practising appropriate hand hygiene, a new global study involving University of Queensland researchers has found. Dr. Yaqoot Fatima from UQ's Institute for Social ...

As the deadly new coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread and hand sanitizers disappear at both retail and online stores, Google researchers have dug out a German-Hungarian physician and scientist ...

The leading infection prevention and control (IPC) protocol remains hand hygiene adherence. In healthcare and food care ...