5 Gross Hand Hygiene

Germs can spread to all of us through hands in many ways, including:
• touching dirty hands
• changing dirty diapers
• through contaminated water and food
• through droplets in the air released during a cough or sneeze
• on contaminated surfaces
• through contact with a sick person's body fluids
Hands often act as carrier that carries disease-causing pathogens from person to person, either through direct contact or indirectly via surfaces. When not washed with soap & water or alcohol based hand rubs, hands that have been in contact with human or animal feces, bodily fluids like nasal excretions, and contaminated foods or water can transport bacteria, viruses and parasites to humans and causes infections.

5 gross hand hygiene facts are: