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HORRIBLE HANDSCAPE

Hands and fingers are very useful for picking up objects,
but they also pick up bacteria and viruses that can cause
disease. These invaders turn your palms into their
playground, joining the resident germs that usually
live there harmlessly.

Rhinovirus Flu virus Salmonella

This virus causes Fever, muscle pains, Salmonella is one
colds, and you can a sore throat, and nasty bacterium
pick it up, packaged headaches are found especially on
in slimy mucus, by what’s in store if you raw chicken. If you
touching something come into contact get it on your hands
that an infected with this virus. Touch or food preparation
person has sneezed a contaminated surfaces, it can
on. If you then touch surface and then contaminate your
your nose or mouth, touch your mouth or food, giving you
it won’t be long nose, and you might stomach cramps
before you’ll have end up with a real and a horrible case
a cold, too. pain in the neck. of diarrhea.

Norovirus Papilloma virus Staphylococcus

A common cause of These little critters This bacterium usually
bad stomach upsets, actually get into lives harmlessly on
the norovirus spreads the skin and your skin or up your
like wildfire from make its cells nose. But some
person to person. multiply. The result strains can cause
If you use a toilet is a bump on nasty boils on
where someone who the skin’s surface the skin or lead
is infected has just that often resembles to blood poisoning
vomited or had a mini cauliflower and meningitis.
diarrhea and don’t and is better known One very good
wash your hands, as a wart. Who wants reason not to pick
you’ll be next! a handshake? your nose!

E. coli Propionibacterium

Most types of Here’s a bacterium that
Escherichia coli (E. coli) lives on the skin’s surface Hand hygiene
live harmlessly in your as a permanent resident, Feeling grossed out? To remove
colon. However, harmful sliding down pores these unseen nasties and reduce
strains picked up from to feed in the skin’s the risk of infection, regularly wash
undercooked meat or oil-producing sebaceous your hands—especially after you go to
transferred by touch glands. If pores get blocked the bathroom, before you eat or prepare
from person to person and trap this bacterium food, and after handling money. Use warm
can cause all sorts inside, it multiplies, water and soap and rub your hands together
of diseases, from causing swelling that for 20 seconds, making sure you scrub under
meningitis in newborn produces sore pimples your fingernails and in between your fingers.
babies to diarrhea. called acne. Then thoroughly dry your hands on a clean towel;
damp hands are a breeding ground for germs.

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