<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2594a55f-b835-44f9-b839-ddd030b4f5f5/521B4B4E-EE45-4CC9-A737-9B98C51A06C8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/oct/15/global-hand-washing-day" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/oct/15/global-hand-washing-day" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/oct/15/global-hand-washing-day"><H1>Now wash your hands</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/oct/15/global-hand-washing-day"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/3634F79A-5AB5-414D-8383-77CD451C5F82" alt="Schoolchildren wash their hands" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/oct/15/global-hand-washing-day"><P>It's <A title="global handwashing day" href="http://www.globalhandwashingday.org/">global handwashing day</A>, in case you hadn't noticed. So, quick, get thee to a sink, turn on the tap, squirt yourself a generous dollop of soap and go wild.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/oct/15/global-hand-washing-day"><P>But it appears that we may well need a little encouragement in this department. Why? Because an "eeeeeeeew" inducingly large number of us just don't do it, according <A title="to a study released today" href="http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/full/99/S2/S405">to a study released today</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/oct/15/global-hand-washing-day">A whopping two-thirds of men don't wash their hands with soap after going to the toilet, according to a British study by the <A title="London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine" href="http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/">London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/oct/15/global-hand-washing-day">And simple <A title="handwashing with soap" href="http://www.lboro.ac.uk/well/resources/fact-sheets/fact-sheets-htm/Handwashing.htm">handwashing with soap</A> is most cost-effective way of disease control, according to the study's authors. "It could save more than a million lives a year from diarrhoeal diseases, and prevent respiratory infections</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/oct/15/global-hand-washing-day"> In developed nations, handwashing can help prevent the spread of flu, sickness and diarrhoea bugs such as norovirus and rotavirus, as well as hospital bugs such as MRSA and <EM>C difficile</EM>, they added.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/521B4B4E-EE45-4CC9-A737-9B98C51A06C8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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