How to Prevent Infectious Disease & Its Spread

Wash Your Hands Often How? Wash your hands for 20 seconds with warm water and soap. If these are unavailable, use hand sanitizer. After: going to the bathroom tending to someone who is sick or treating a cut or wound blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing handling garbage Before: eating or preparing food tending to someone who is sick or treating a cut or wound

History Break: Typhoid Mary Mary Mallon worked as a cook in America on the east coast during the early 1900s. Mary was an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever. She infected 51 people and killed at least 3 of them. She was found out and was placed in quarantine at Riverside Hospital from 1915 until her death in 1938.

Cover Your Mouth When You Cough or Sneeze Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Put your used tissue in the waste basket. If you don't have a tissue, cough or sneeze into your upper sleeve or elbow, not your hands.

Other Tips to Prevent Infectious Disease & Its Spread Cook all food thoroughly per package instructions Don’t share personal items (hairbrush, towel, etc.) Use antibiotics correctly Get vaccinated Stay home if you are sick