Swine Flu ‘Superspreaders’

A new study has revealed that doctors, nurses and other health care professionals may act as ‘Superspreaders’ for the H1N1 Swine Flu. The study was aimed at finding out what impact health care professionals personal hand washing habits had on infection levels and it was found that te doctors and nurses who don’t wash their hands are more likely to spread swine flu and hospital super bugs.

The study’s researchers suggest that dirty hands of doctors and nurses act as germ “superspreaders” and cause more infections.

According to this report, in the World Science online journal, the study in particular pointed to those Health-care work­ers who roam from pa­tient to pa­tient in a hos­pi­tal ward, whom it is suggested may play a dis­pro­por­tion­ate role in spread­ing pathogens.

The study found out­breaks in­creas­ing when work­ers failed to fol­low stand­ard hand wash­ing pro­ce­dures. But in­fec­tion rates in­creased by up to three times more when a per­i­pa­tetic health care work­er failed to wash his or her hands com­pared with a work­er from the oth­er groups, the re­search­ers added.

The study has once again brought into focus the great importance of washing hands and maintaining personal hygiene in limiting the spread of disease, and in particular a pandemic of the nature of the H1N1 Swine flu.

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