It is not necessary to shake hands with each other in the midst of a flu epidemic, warn scientists. And they give a strange piece of advice: better touch elbows.
It is difficult to imagine the conclusion of a business deal without a handshake. But perhaps this ritual rooted in the Millennium soon will eventually become the past. Leading scientists from Stanford University in California believe that promote the development of a handshake a flu epidemic .
Stanford Professor Nathan Wolfe offers as soon as possible to come up with an alternative to shaking hands. Anything less dangerous from the hygienic point of view, like touching each other with their elbows. Or at all to refuse from direct contact and following the example of the Japanese go to the bows. According to Wolf, handshakes are dangerous not only because of the a flu epidemic . Because of them, people get a variety of intestinal infections and colds. Pathogenic bacteria quite quickly penetrate the skin and begin the destructive process.
In Britain, at Wolfe many supporters, because three-quarters of local residents admitted that significantly reduced the number of handshakes. Some even began to follow the example of President Obama and his wife Michelle. They are not publicly shake hands and face with his fists. This is a fairly common tradition of welcome for African Americans. And by the way, is much more hygienic than traditional handshake.
Pathogenic bacteria influenza may persist up to 24 hours on surfaces, consoles, desks, door handles and even teapots. They fall on the palm of a man, with easy climb over a handshake to other people. That's how often arises flu epidemic . Especially in recent years people have to wash your hands much less frequently than before.
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