1. How to Prevent Infectious Disease & Its Spread

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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