Airborne Infectious Disease Transmission

Although almost 60 years old, this clip contains useful information for preventing the transmission of flu and colds today. Covering your coughes and sneezes (known as respiratory etiquette today) because these actions send germs traveling into the air. However, many healthcare workers have been taught the three-foot or one-meter "rule" (this has recently morhed into the 6-foot rule)as an absolute truth by infection control practitioners as the 'safe' distance to prevent respiratory infection transmission, such as for seasonal or pandemic flu. However, recent reliable scientific evidence convincingly refutes this "rule" showing that flu germs may travel further and stay in the air for hours. For more information, go to http://www.opseu.org/hands/Pandemicguide08.pdf . Sadly, healthcare workers worldwide are often not getting the protection they need from airborne disease,such as the current swine flu. In this current swine flu outbreak, CDC began suggesting that surgical masks will do to protect healthcare workers (without the nylon stockings mentioned in this song). Much evidence regarding airborne transmission and the need for true respirators has accumulated since this video was made. A recent report by the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) RESPIRATORY PROTECTION FOR HEALTHCARE WORKERS IN THE WORKPLACE AGAINST NOVEL H1N1 INFLUENZA A (HTTP://WWW.NAP.EDU ) supports that health care workers who interact with patients suspected or confirmed to be infected with novel H1N1 influenza Ashould wear fitted N95 respirators, which filter better than looser medical masks. However, wearing N95 respirators should be only one element of workers' and health care organizations' infection control strategies

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[caltontongs73]

love how the teacher hands over her own handkerchief to the boy!,she might just have spread the diseas herself.