A report just published by the UK-based International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene has highlighted three key measures for preventing the transmission of life-threatening infections such as diarrhoea. Chair of the Forum Professor Sally Bloomfield, of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, explains how a family-orientated approach to hygiene targeting “infection super-highways” around the home can give protection without over-exposing the environment to chemicals.
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