Global Health

Avoid Death And Disease In The Home!

July 11, 2009
Sally Bloomfield

Sally Bloomfield

Our homes are full of potential ways of getting ill, or even dying—according to a report published by the International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene. Peter Goodwin hears from one of the authors, Sally Bloomfield of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, how all of us—especially together with our families and in our homes—need better advice on how to avoid hazards of infections that surround us.

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