INTERNATIONAL HEALTH AND HYGIENE SYMPOSIUM

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                    [Summary] => Unhygienic practices can cause deaths from respiratory and diarrheal illnesses among 3.5 million children below five years old annually, and simple hand washing with soap can reduce such cases by half.


This was reported by Dr. Anna Bowen of the Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, citing statistics from the World Health Organization and the results of various studies.


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Hand washing can save millions of kids

February 26, 2006 - 12:00am

Unhygienic practices can cause deaths from respiratory and diarrheal illnesses among 3.5 million children below five years old annually, and simple hand washing with soap can reduce such cases by half. This was...

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