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One pair of dirty hands equals many infections
Reuters, 10/20/09
A single doctor, nurse or technician with dirty hands can undo all the good work of an entire hospital staff trained to carefully wash their hands to prevent the spread of infection, French researchers reported on Monday. This may be especially likely to happen just at the worst time when a hospital is overwhelmed with a disaster or a pandemic of infectious diseases and staff are reassigned to cope.
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