On: Wash your hands

[bmunro]

Not true. A quick hand wash gets rid of almost all the bacteria. Fungi take a bit more scrubbing to get rid of.

I found this out in first year university biology. We swabbed and cultured our hands before and after washing with plain soap. Almost no colony forming units of bacteria are left after a short wash. A reasonable amount of the fungi is still there though.

[Tichy → bmunro]

I heard different things from various physicians, is all I can say.

Maybe that experiment should be done at school with all children.