Hand Hygiene Blog

One hundred years ago, in 1918, an influenza pandemic broke out. The so-called Spanish flu killed  20-50 million  people, many more than the First Ward War that ended the same year  [1] . Could it happen again? What can we do to avoid it? What is the role of hand hygiene in this story?

Many techniques exist how to handrub, most of them are based on the so-calles WHO 6-step protocol . As we previously summarized , this has limitations; it takes long to perform, quite hard to remember and therefore its compliance is pretty low. For these reasons, several alternative protocols exist , but we have limited data on the efficacy of these alternatives.