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Basic hygiene 'more effective against swine flu than drugs' | A new study has found that maintaining
basic hygiene like washing hands and using face masks can control the spread of
swine flu more effectively than vaccines and antiviral drugs. The report has been
published in the British Medical Journal. The research team led by professor Tom
Jefferson from the Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections Group in Italy reviewed
59 studies done on the usefulness of physical ways to limit the spread of respiratory
viruses. The team concluded that washing hands frequently, wearing masks, gloves
and gowns around sick patients were the most effective ways to avoid contracting
flu. The scientists further noted that if all of these measures were followed
properly one case of respiratory flu out of every three could be prevented. Dr
Jefferson said everyone thought taking vaccines and antivirals, could prevent/cure
the disease but this was only an "obsession with vaccines that don't exist and
antivirals which will probably cause you sickness as well", reports the Scotsman. |
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