A child contaminates 50% peers at playtime – Study
By: CHIOMA UMEHA Ahead of the Global Hand Washing Day on Tuesday, an international research body announced that studies have confirmed that a child infects 50 per cent of his school mates during playtime. The research mission under the sponsorship of soap brand, Safeguard did the study to determine the rate of germ transfer and contamination among school children. The research mission was conducted by the Beijing Health Technical Research Center using 40 children in an elementary school in China. One child was designated Patient Zero and had his hands marked with ‘a safe fluorescent agent’ representing germs. Within a day period, the child interacted with his friends inside and outside the classroom, performing the usual activities of any school child – studying, playing and eating with his friends. At the end of certain periods, the researchers used a UV light detector to check the children for traces of ‘contamination,’ in order to determine how many children had residue