Why is ill employees can not go to work

Just one sick employee in the office is able to infect the time of the lunch break for half of all the surfaces of common use in the office. That is the conclusion reached by researchers from the American University of Arizona.

Scientists from the United States reaffirmed the validity of the rules that employees should stay home and not come into the office, carrying a cold or flu, "on your feet". The velocity spread of the virus much higher than we usually imagine. It is enough for one person to the office will be sick as a dinner for more than half of all public surfaces will already be infected. This desktops and doorknobs and railings on the stairs, and glass walls, and kitchen utensils in the kitchen, etc.

However, sick employees may wish to significantly reduce the risk of contamination of working surfaces, and together with them and their colleagues. It is enough to wash your hands thoroughly with antibacterial soap and then use special wipes. These findings were obtained in the course of the experiment, when the office of 80 employees of the researchers before the working day someone hands dripped onto artificial virus, like a cold or the flu, but do not pose a real danger to health.

"We ourselves were surprised at what rate the virus spreads   the office, - says study author Kelly Reynolds. - I did not think much of his find of traces in such a short period of time. This is the room where people mainly worked in isolation from each other. That is, either the partitions or in separate rooms. After a couple of hours, the virus appeared in the kitchen and on the copier that stood in the corridor. That is infected - a question very short period of time. "(Read More)

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