Mother, Why Do We Need To Wash Our Hands?"

A 2 part article from Bernama, Malaysian news agency - long article but very informative, let's all combat H1N1 together. Excerpt :

" Recently, when dining at a food court here, this writer heard a small boy enquiring from his mother on why he should wash his hands before eating."We have to wash our hands in order to get rid of the germs. If we happened to touch food with hands contaminated by germs and we later consume the food, then we can get sick afterwards," answered the mother being aware of the possible infections against her small child and also the danger posed by the H1N1 influenza, also known as the A influenza that is still around and in the pandemic state across the globe since April last year."

Please read the whole article part 1:

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=466069