Clean Hands Week

It's Clean Hands Week. According to the Clean Hands Coalition, the single most important thing we can do to keep from getting sick and spreading illness to others is to clean our hands.

Students don't wash their hands often or well. In one study, only 58% of female and 48% of male middle and high school students washed their hands after using the bathroom. A study of Detroit school children showed that scheduled hand washing, at least four times a day, can reduce gastrointestinal illness and related absences by more than 50%.