Hand washing is the single most effective step to reduce the spread of infectious diseases, but Mich­i­gan State Uni­vers­ity re­search­ers found that only 5% of peo­ple who used the bath­room washed their hands long enough to kill the germs that can cause in­fec­tions

Moneylife Digital Team

Ac­cord­ing to the US Cen­tres for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion, it takes 15 to 20 sec­onds of vig­or­ous hand wash­ing with soap and wa­ter to ef­fec­tively kill the germs. But yet the study which was based on the ob­serva­t­ions of 3,749 peo­ple in pub­lic restrooms showed that peo­ple were wash­ing their hands for only six sec­onds on an average. “These find­ings were sur­pris­ing to us be­cause past re­search sug­gested that prop­er hand wash­ing is oc­cur­ring at a much high­er rate,” said Carl Borch­gre­vink, the lead in­ves­ti­ga­tor. Borch­grevink and col­leagues had trained a doz­en col­lege stu­dents and made them ob­serve hand wash­ing in re­strooms at bars, restau­rants and oth­er pub­lic es­tab­lish­ments.

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