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=MARC= What measures can we take/do you take,personally, to prevent the spread of disease?

To prevent the spread of disease is really quite simple just wash your hands and simple things like sneezing into your elbow instead of your hand can make a big difference. Diseases such as the flu and common cold can spread extremely quickly if people aren't careful so must learn to do the smple things like when you're sick DON'T GO TO SCHOOL AND SPREAD YOUR GERMS stay at home and get lots of bedrest. And just popping your hands under the sink for two seconds doesn't count really wash them WITH SOAP. Prevent the spread of disease people be hygenic.

Bryant: I agree with the part where you said that you cannot just wash your hands in two seconds. You must wash properlly. Will:The part where you said to not to go to school is what I agree with but, what about the people around you in your home? should you stay away from them? just wondering.

 re can we take/do you take, personally, to prevent the spread of disease? =IRAJ=

As humans we get many diseases such as chicken pox. How do you prevent spreading it? You don't interact with other humans so they don't get it. If you happen to be around/touch a human then there is a high chance of you catching the disease. Another disease that is easily transmitted is the common cold. Everything depends on your palms. The best way to prevent the spread of this disease is to frequently wash your hands well with soap. If you don't, then you are at a high chance of spreading the disease. For example, if you sneeze, and don’t wash your hands, and you’re at school and interacting with people and touching many things, the disease can be spread from your hands to your surroundings. 

=Helen= What measure can we take/do you take, personally, to prevent the spread of disease?

To prevent the spread of disease I cough/sneeze in my arm, or in a tissue and wash my hands after, if I sneeze in my hands. And I wash my hands with soap and water before every meal, when I come home, and after using the bathroom. :] Also, I eat vitamins, to stay healthy, exercise, and I don't use anti-bacterial agents all the time. We shouldn't share eating utensils because if someone was infected you could get infected too, if you don't wash the utensils. Also, maybe stay away from crowded places with strangers and go to the doctor if your feeling weird. And if you have a cold or your sick, you shouldnt go to school because you could spread it to one of your friends. Eat healthy food and make sure your not eating raw meat or expired food, because bacteria is in expired food. Also, if you get medicine from your doctor take the whole course, so the disease won’t grow worse. []

This is a picture of a person sneezing. IN A TISSUE. Which is good because she isn't using her hands. x] Back To Top Katherine: Its detailed Helen, good job! Sofia: Yes, washing hands are important because they are the ones that hold binders(that might have fell on the floor), friends pencils and etc.

=Katherine :D= Bacteria are everywhere, so we should take some actions to prevent ourselves from catching flu, cold and such. Personally, I wash my hands before I eat, after going to bathroom, before and after entering the hospital (because hospital got some bacteria). If I sneeze in my hand, I wash them before I touch anything. And obviously don't cough in people's face :P I exercise, sleep well to keep myself healthy, and shower to get the bacteria away. It's better if you don't use anti bacterial product, unless you HAVE to. Since it makes the bacteria resistant. Disease can spread through contaminated food, objects and infected people. Don't eat any raw meet or egg, it's better if it's hot. Check the expired date of food, avoid badly wrapped food or leaving food unrefrigerated. Don't just sneeze and pretend nothing happen then go use the keyboard or open the door. When other people uses the keyboard or opens the door, they're gonna have bacteria on their hand and they probably will go touch their mouth or something. So wash your hand after you cough or sneeze. Wash your hand after you touch money too, since everyone touches it. Don't go to places that are crowded, when people cough or sneeze around you they don't actually know they are passing the bacteria around. If the doctor tells you to eat these anti biotics for how many days, don't stop in the middle because the bacteria will be resistant to it. YES! PREVENT DISEASE! Image: '[|Prevent Finger Disease]' www.flickr.com/photos/15732690@N00/310547829 Back To Top Charlie: Actually it is hot enough to kill the bacteria inside the food. Anyway good job. Sofia: Yes, If people didn´t use the antibiotics for a full coarse, then they would become stronger and we won´t be able to be cured or get better!! (how horrid) Alexandre: Great advice, especially summarizing it. I'm eating guava, and my yogurt crystallized...

=Evelyn= When your sick you usually stay home right? The reason you do that is because you DON'T want to anyone else to get sick. Even though you wash your hands, your hands are clean. But when you touch a contaminated object... WHAM, your hands are once again, dirty. So wash your hands when you come home. (I sound like a parent...) But there is no need to wash your hands with anti-bacterial soap. This is because the bacteria can become resistant. However you can have a bottle of anti-bacterial soap in a household with weaker immune systems. Oh and EXPIRATION DATES! it's disgusting and dangerous, eating rotten food? It's not very healthy.... when you eat food, it keeps you healthy. But expired food means it's not good anymore. So yes you can get sick. Oh and when your sick please cover your mouth when you are sneezing or coughing. SO YOU DON"T SPREAD THE DISEASE!

As you can see this lady is sick. And she probably is spitting when she is talking because the man is now breathing in her disease. Yup that's ewwie!

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Disease is passed on and on bycontact with an infected person, contact with contaminated objected, contact with animal and contact with environment. We can avoid getting disease by not eating bad, rotten or contaminated object and wash your hand before eating is also correct.( Katherine and Helen have already talked about this already). You can also avoid getting disease by getting stronger which means to get healthier. You can get more healthy by getting more excercise, breathe more fresh air which means to get the air moving/circulated, eat healthy, and drink more watear. You can also get more vitamin which you are doing everyday only that you don't realised it. Like stay in the sun which will let your body make Vitamin D. Vitamin D will help you get more calcium. And eating fruits like orange which give you Vitamin C. Another is that also don't eat expired medicine. There may be chemical change after expired date. And remember to finish the course that the doctor gave you for antibiotic. Harry: What about not washing your hands before you eat, what would happen then? this is penicillin. it is a kind of antibiotic this is the chemical to make penicillin this is the structure of penicillin []toc

=Will=

One of the places that people over-look sanitation is right under the toilet bowl. Toilet flushing does not kill all of the bacteria that has been killed at the rim of the toilet. The rim of the toilet need to be cleaned daily, or after a couple uses to keep the bacteria from spreading to other places. Also, the showers and sinks should be scrubbed and disinfected. I bet you didn't know that mops also spread bacteria and germs. They should be reused only after it has been dried from the use before. Here is a cleaning cycle that would decrease the spread of bacteria in households environments. The information below was sourced from: http://deploymenthealthlibrary.fhp.

Recommended Cleaning Cycle

Daily – disinfect bathroom floors, sinks, showers, toilets, doorknobs, handles, light switches and other high-touch surfaces; clean with soap and water or sweep other visible dirt on floors and surfaces as necessary.

Weekly – launder all soiled clothing and linens; use soap and water to mop floors and clean all horizontal surfaces.

Every Three Weeks – turn in blankets, pillows, and mattress covers for laundering.

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= = =Harry= How we wash are hands can greatly effect our health! I found this criteria about the proper way to wash your hands! Not just a quick rub under a jet of cold water! A lot of people at our school don't know the measures the school takes to keep you healthy. Most people with a fever don't know about the rule which says you must be at least 24 hours fever free. this is due because of the fact a fever can be a symptom of a cold and hence transmittable. Child vaccines are also imprtant beacause they can protect you from som pretty nasty disaeses later in life. So be safe and smart
 * **Use warm water and soap.**
 * **wash for 10-20 seconds**
 * **rinse**
 * **dry with paper towel**

This picture shows a nusre filling a syringe with a vaccine. http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/paharc/collections/gallery/departments/1064_nurse_filling_syringe.jpg

back to top =Sofia:=  Why is it important to balance personal, short-term benefits and society´s long term welfare? What measures can we take/do you take, personally, to prevent the spread of disease?

It is improtant because of what Katherine said earlier, if you don´t take the full coarse antibiotics, like you´re suppose to take for 20 days but feel better after 10 days and stop using it would result in stronger bacteria and we maybe wouldn´t be able to cure ourself. Also, not to use antibiotics all the time, soap and water are enough or as I said earlier, they would get stronger. Measures I take to stay healthy are wash hands after use of bathroom, use of public things like key bords and when food is involved, not cough/sneeze into the air, stay home if you are sick, don´t share food with sick people plus stay away from them and animals from the street, don´t even share objects like a comb or toothbrush, another way is for your body to be strong, excerise daily and eat a balance amount in the food pyramid, get enough nutrients. Sometimes people get vaccins for diseases like the chicken flu. Soap and water are all you need.

=Alexandre= Well, there's ALWAYS the cleanliness method. Like what I guess everyone said, soap and water helps prevent disease. Especially if you're oh I don't know, playing with your friend that has a cold or something. Washing your hands before eating something after playing with them will increase your chances of not catching the cold. If YOU have a disease, just stay at home. No use going to school and spreading it. When you do catch it, anti-biotics aren't the answer to everything. Just stay home and sleep lots. That's what I did.... And you can stay away from those disease-ridden places, or places that have epidemics of some sort. Like now would not be a good time for a pleasant visit to Zimbabwe... unless you would LOVE the thrilling experience of cholera! WATERY POOP! Yeah.... what a holiday. <<< The Cholera virus AND SORRY! I'm on holiday, decided to check my science stuff, and then I saw India's comment. I was like, did I say that? Sorry, I often mess up. Bleh.

=Bryant= We have to do things to prevent virus and bacteria from spreading and to prevent it from infecting us. I ,personally, would wash my hands after using the toilet, before eating and after I touch money. I don't use antibacterial angents. I cough or sneeze in a tissue paper or my sleeve or my hand. And wash it off before touching anything. I sleep good, exercise, and eat a balanced diet to keep my body strong and healthy. Bacteria and viruses can be spread by airbourne, foodbourne or person to person. Eggs and meat should be cooked before eating to prevent bad things to get into you. Foods should be stored in the fridge. We should check the expired date before buying or consuming it. We should not touch the dead. We should wear the mask thing when we have a cold. We should go to the doctor when we are sick. We must finish the whole course of medication the doctor gives us to prevent the bacteria/virus in our body from getting resistant to the antibiotic. And washing hands with normal soap is super duper important!



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=Timothy= Well, the simplest way to prevent the spread of disease would be to always wash your hands! Personal hygiene is important, especially if you cough or sneeze in your hands. If you didn’t wash your hands and touch objects, those objects become contaminated. When another person touches the object, they would be infected. You should wash your hands with soap and water instead of anti-bacterial agents. If you use anti-bacterial agents, the bacteria would eventually grow immune to it! Also because anti-bacterial agents can harm your cells as well. The best way is to either wash your hands a lot, cough and sneeze in your sleeves, or wear a cough mask to prevent the spread of disease. It’s also important that you also eat healthy food and exercise a lot. Healthy food and exercise helps build your immune system, so when there’s a bacterium invading your body, your immune system would be able to fight it off. If you eat junk food, and be lazy, your immune system would grow weaker and weaker. If a bacterium attacks your body, your immune system would not be able to fight it off. In result, you could become sick, or even die! Things meat should either refrigerated or cooked. Cooking can help prevent bacteria, and refrigerating can stop the growth of bacteria. Doing this can help prevent you from getting foodborne. You should also stay away crowded places and breathe more fresh air. When you are in a crowded place, there is a high chance you could get person-to-person infection. Being in crowded place can also have infection that is transmitted through airborne. This is why being at open spaces and breathing fresh air could help and prevent you from getting sick. One of the most important things you should do is to NEVER EVER share food or utensils. If you are infected and you eat a lollipop, and you shared it with your friend, your infected saliva would infect your friend when they eat it. Sharing food and coughing and sneezing aren’t much different. The picture below shows two man sharing a pizza. Its okay to share food, as long as no one have already bit it or placed in their mouth. Sharing utensils such as forks or chopstick can also contain infected saliva that can infect to people who uses it again. If you are feeling sick, and you do not want to infect others, you can always just go to a doctor. A doctor could prescribe medications or just tell you to rest a few days and see if you are feeling any better. The important thing about medication or antibiotics is that, if a doctor prescribes you 5 days of antibiotics, you have to take 5 days of antibiotics, even if you are feeling better. Usually, if a doctor doesn’t know if it’s a virus, bacteria, or protozoa, they would ask you to rest and see if you feel better. If you feel better, they will just tell you rest more. If you continue to feel sick, they would prescribe antibiotic to you. I like how Charlie included that Vitamin C and D could help you feel better, because vitamin can help your body and strengthen your immune system (I think). I like his picture too. Its like a drug dealer asking kids if they want drugs. It true though that once you use too much bacteria agent, the bacteria get immune to them. []

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Clean=healthy healty= kill clean (not be clean), =Kil healthiness = you not healthy=other people not healthy, =doom

These are basic steps to the most basic way to not be sick. Of corse just washing your hands are not enough. There are many basic ways to keep your self healthy, in order not to spread disease. Do you think back in the dark ages bubonic plague spreaded because people were evil and God was mad? Do you think Malraia can kill just like that? Do you think Everyone just got a cold on purpose????? (well the last one, maybe). But the point is there are reasons for all those diseases and most of them is that people didn't kee clean and away from bad, dirty, sick stuff. Now I don't mean if you don't wash your hands 3 times a day you will get a cold, but you need some prevention. Like don't share food or clothing. Don't have contact with sick person, never share personal items, don't chew on pencils, make sure you get plenty of rest and was your hands when And a very smart tip, NEVER DRINK CHINA TAP WATER unless you want to be sick for a while. And be sure to cut your nails, it is very nesiccary (I know I spelled that wrong).
 * You used the bathroom
 * you went outside to play
 * before meals
 * before snacktime
 * after you came home
 * after you went to the hospital (especially in China)
 * after you handled money

I agree with Charlie that vitamins can help you defence yourself. But I don't think all vitamins a good for our age, I think we are only suppose to have vitamins A, C, and D. It is important to take good care of your hygeine, and you shouldn't use anti bacteria thingys like hand satertizers because they can weaken your immune system.

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=India= I take lots of measures to prevent disease. Hygeine is an obvious one, I always wash my hands. It's not hard. If everyone washed thier hands, the world would have lot less disease. SO PLEASE. Put your hands under the sink for 15 seconds, for 8 billion peoples sake. And I don't touch 'mucous mebranes' (pick my nose/ rub my eyes). I also shower daily, to keep clean. //I like to keep other people clean too.// I dont sneeze/ cough on you. The most discusting thing is where you spit. Thats just. Liquid bacteria. China is a bad example. AND THE TAP WATER. YUK. Dont get me started. Just. don't. I'm pretty sure theres more disease than water in there. After reading the article about Hand sanitizer, i dont use it, now I know its only for the people with bad immune systems. I make sure I drink alot of water, and get enough sleep.If I know that someone is ill, i wont embrace them or shake their hands, becuase I now know about person-person disease spreading. I don't eat bad food, and I always check the expiration date. now I know about stupid Salmonelle, i ATTEMPT to prevent myself from eating cookie dough. I do TRY. And as nice as my friends lipstick is, or how tasty her pizza looks, sharing ISNT caring. It's disease careing, not us caring. I sneeze into my hand, use tissue to wipe my nose, and if i'm ill, i return favor back, and warn my friends to stay away. If I feel ill, and I go to the doctors and am prescribed antibiotics, my parents ALWAYS force me to take the whole load, even if i feel better. Otherwise my bacteria might become immune.

( SORRY. Whenever I click images to insert, my computer freezes)

Lady and the tramp: []

Look at this, this isnt a romantic scene. This is DISEASE SPREADING, dont share spaghetti.

Wash hands : []

Not hard at all. 15 seconds of your life, they could save 15 years.

COMMENT TO ALEXANDRE: When you say *anti-biotics are the answer to everything* don't you mean, if you have a bacterial disease, if its viral they can't help at all, and you should also mention about taking the full prescription

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=Patrick= There are many ways to prevent the spreading of diseases. First of all, the main way a disease get spread is by coughing, sneezing, spitting, or speaking. I suggest coughing into your arm, sneezing into a tissue, and just don’t spit. Since most bacteria are located on/around your hand, it is important to clean them frequently with soap and hot water. Use hot water because it eliminate bacteria more efficiently. The best way to prevent a disease from spreading to to keep your body healthy. When your body is healthy, you immune system is most likely working well, and you won’t be harmed as much. In my picture, there is a hand that is CRAWLING with bacteria/germs. This is why it is important to wash your hands. I think this is a good picture to show kids to encourage them to wash their hand because they are the ones that are unaware of the potentially harmful bacteria/viruses on your hands. I liked Marc's tip to not go to school when you are sick. That is probably why kids at school get sick. I liked Victoria's list of times to wash your hands. You were very specific. This made me try to come up with more examples!



=James=  What measure can we take/do you take, personally, to prevent the spread of disease?

Well there are many ways that you can do that. First, I personally myself, always wash my hands before eating, after I use go to the bathroom, and after touching money. I cover my mouth with tissue if i have them and my sleeve when coughing or sneezing. I turn away from the people I am facing when doing that too. I don't use any anti-biotics and such. I go to the doctor when I get catch a disease. I exercise from time to time, I sleep as early as I can most of the time. I try to eat a balanced diet. My family boils water to keep them clean and drinkale. I wear enough cloths to keep me warm everyday. Washing hands is always a great way to keep clean.  Eat food that is cooked and make sure they are clean except maybe sashimi that is clean. The ways of how diseases are infected like listed before, person to person, airborne, foodborne. So stay away from crowded areas, cause who knows there might be someone who is infected in there. Don't share untensils, and try to cover your mouth when you cough an sneeze. Go to the doctor if you get sick. This is a list of how disease are transmitted:  This is what happens when you cough
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