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New study questions whether children are main culprits of flu epidemic
Filed under: Health & Safety: Babies, Media
From CNN.com: According to a new
study, it turns out that your kids may not be the main culprits spreading the flu bug.It might be you.
The study, published in the journal, Science, suggests that working adults are more to blame for the flu's spread across the United States, based on the latest analysis of seasonal flu patterns. Cecile Viboud of the National Institutes of Health headed up a team in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania who studied 30 years of influenza data. The team found "the regional spread of infection correlates more closely with rates of movement of people to and from their workplaces (workflows) than with geographical distance."
The study also confirmed that fastidious hand-washing is shown to greatly reduce the spread of influenza.
(Thanks to lim for the tip!)
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
4-03-2006 @ 12:44PM
thordora said...Considering the number of ADULTS who do NOT wash their hands after using the bathroom at work, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
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4-03-2006 @ 12:53PM
LB said...How about the number of adults who insist on working when really sick. I know some people don't have very good sick day benefits, but my DH worked with a boss who prided himself on never missing a day of work and he got his assistant and a few others sick several times. I know you can speard germs before showing big signs, but those first few days of sneezing are big "Typhoid Mary" days. Stay home!
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4-03-2006 @ 1:54PM
Charlotte said...I totally agree with LB that sick people need to stay home. I would be more than happy to do that, even if it means working from home. However, some of us work for "The Man" and do not have adquate sick time off policies let alone the ability to work from home.
For example, it is April and I have only 8 hours of sick time remaining available until 2007. Furthermore, the time off I have used was for my sick child, who is not allowed at daycare until 24 hours of being symptom-free (I agree with this policy even though it is inconvenient. Keeping other children well and comforting sick children at home with parent is priority).
However, when I get sick, I must work because there is not enough time off to go around and I'm "allowed" at work no matter how sick I am.
The best I can do is stay in my office, wash my hands, and wipe down everything I touch with disinfectant wipes.
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4-03-2006 @ 1:58PM
Charlotte said...It is shameful the number of adult who don't wash their hands after using the bathroom.
At my workplace, the ladies room soap dispenser was empty for a week before I finally asked about some refills (which we apparently had in storage but no one felt the need to use). I was washing my hands elsewhere that had soap, but I wonder if my coworkers had been doing the same.
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4-03-2006 @ 2:03PM
Caitlin said...I'd have to agree with LB about people working while sick. If someone comes in sick to my husband's office, it has the potential to spread from the office to a good chunk of northern VA, DC, and Maryland. A few people commute from as far as 60-70 miles away, and it's not uncommon for one spouse/roommate to work in another state or to make their commute on the Metro.
I was lucky at my last job that we had great sick day benefits. The owner was germaphobic and would all but spray you down with Lysol if she thought you were getting sick. You didn't haved to take a sick if you were going to make up the hours later on that week.
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