35. Handwashing in a highly infectious epidemic
35. Handwashing in a highly infectious epidemic
Last update: 2022-09-14
Overview
- If you are not extremely careful, you are likely to fall sick in certain epidemics when you try to help people. (See Action tools Volunteer protection and safety and Personal protection equipment (PPE) for highly infectious diseases on volunteer protection and using PPE.)
- Handwashing is a vital source of protection when you deal with Ebola, Marburg fever, Lassa fever, plague, MERS and monkeypox.
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