Targeted Approach To Home Hygiene: Best For Preventing Deadly Infections

Published: May 29, 2010, 5:15 p.m.

b'London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Audio News: \\n \\nTargeted Approach To Home Hygiene: Best For Preventing Deadly Infections\\n\\nA 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 and 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.'