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What measures can we take/do you take, personally, to prevent the spread of disease?** =Tiffany=  What measures can we take/do you take, personally, to prevent the spread of disease?
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Well, there are a lot of things we can do. We can wash our hands before and after meals, cough into a tissue, sneeze into a tissue and many more. But let us first start from washing our hands.

Washing our hand is really important in our daily life and to prevent the spread of disease. We should wash our hands before meals. This can help you prevent the disease from your hands getting to your food that you eat. Also, you should wash your hands after every meal. Wash your hand so that it is clean and disease free.

Cough and sneeze into a tissue so that the tiny flying water disease drops don’t spread anywhere but into the tissue. If you don’t have a tissue around, just cough or sneeze on your arm. Sneezing and coughing on your arm isn’t as bad as you cough and sneeze on you hand because you don’t really touch your friends with your arms that much but if you cough into your hands and shake your hands with someone else. They will get infected. Brush your teeth in the morning and at night so you get rid of the harmful bacteria and viruses inside your mouth. To keep your mouth fresh you can chew gum during the day.

Flush the toilet after using, wear mask when people around you are sick, don’t drink tap water, change clothes daily, and take a shower daily. There are many more but don’t have time for all those. []

=Angela= Diseases are everywhere, and people want to avoid diseases as much as possible. So here are some measures we can take to prevent the spread of diseases as a solution. First, as we all know, we need to wash our hands frequently especially before eating, because you can take in pathogens. Secondly, we need to wear gauze masks when we’re sick to prevent the pathogens we might cough or sneeze into the air which someone else might catch. Thirdly, we need to avoid contacts with other people if we know they’re sick or have got a disease. Other measures we can take are preparing food properly (avoid raw food), drink boiled water (kills germs), avoid sharing eating utensils (using contaminated objects), and get the recommended vaccines.

In regards to Tiffany's post, I think it is important to wash our hands frequently. Adding on to what Tiffany said, I think we should also use soap to wash our hands to get rid of the tiny microbes on our hands. *remember, don't use antibacterial hand soap, they cause more harm than help. Image: boiling water Image from: [|www.flickr.com/photos/20776494@N00/3100859247] This picture shows a pot of boiling water which relates to drinking boiled water mentioned above. = **Esther** = = = I think the best way to avoid diseases are to stay in when you have a person-to-person transmission disease, wear a mask if you have an air borne disease, do not make or touch food if you have a food borne disease, etc. Try to also avoid eating food that has made others sick. Like the others said, washing your hands is really important. Try to clean after yourself, covering your face when yawning, coughing, burping, or sneezing, etc. Try to avoid touching you eyes, mouth, eyes, or other sensitive places when your hands are dirty. Angela did really well, and put a lot of examples in her post, like avoid sharing utensils, drinking boiled (clean) water, et cetera. I agree with her. Diseases are really ALL around us. We need to take caution against them and try to avoid getting sick and staying totally healthy. http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/05yuaXw8fE3pq/340x.jpg This pictue shows a survivor of a disease wearing a mask to avoid spreading/ getting diseases from others. = **Natasha** = =Celine= There are a lot of things I take to prevent the spread of disease. I take a shower everyday, wash hand and face when I go home, wash hand before I eat, not talk too much or have a physical contact with person who has a disease, not using or wear the same thing with someone who has disease, etc. Other than what I do, there are still a lot of things we can take to prevent the spread of disease. We can open windows at home to get fresh air in our room, keep the food clean by foils and placing them in fridge, wash hands after physical contact, and not going outside when I caught a cold, because when other people get infected and I'm healthy again, I can be infected again by the people I spreaded the disease to.
 * What measures can we take/do you take, personally, to prevent the spread of disease?**

I think Natasha did good job on her PowerPoint, because she explained well about what people can do to prevent the spread of disease. She not only wrote major things that people can do, but she also thought a lot and said very specifically. For example, she could have just wrote "I don't use things that people who are sick used", but she wrote "I don't share lip balm with other people" and etc. This is the part I really liked about her PowerPoint, and I also liked that she put a lot of pictures of how to prevent the spread of disease and how people can spread disease. Washing hand is the major thing you can do to prevent from spreading disease

=Jeff= What do I do to keep myself clean and healthy? I wash my hair, feet, hands, and ears. I don't touch sick people. I don't drink tap water. And lastly, I wash my hands after using the bathroom. I think the most important thing to do is wash your hands. It is an essential, especially after using the bathroom and before eating. Washing your hands could save you from a number of diseases. The second most important thing to do is not touch sick people. Do you want to touch someone after they coughed up snot and phlegm? I didn't think so.

I agree with Celine's measures to keep yourself clean. I agree with taking a shower every day and not having much physical contact with a sick person. What I don't get is the phrase 'not using or wearing the same thing with someone who has a disease'. What does it mean? Does it mean you wear the same clothes as someone else?

=Cindy= Things I do to prevent from being sick or unhealthy are the basics: washing your hands, flushing the toilet after I'm done, don't pick my nose or rub my eyes when my hands are filthy, and don't eat food that have spoiled or rotted. I think these are the basic things people can do to keep themselves away from diseases. Of course, they can also do extra things like turning off a public tap with a paper towel after you've washed your hands. I also try to stay away from things in the public such as esculator handles and elevator buttons. I would wash my hands after touching those things. Sometimes it's hard to remember to do all those things, but if you think of viruses or bacteria going into your body, you will always remember.

I like how Jeff thinks not touching a sick person is important. Because many deadly diseases spread by person to person contact. I think it's best to just stay AWAY from sick people till they've recovered.

=Glarence= There are lots of different things you can do to prevent the spread of diseases or to prevent yourself from getting a disease. One way is to wash your hands before you eat and after you go to the bathroom. This will prevent you from spreading diseases when you do something like rubbing your eyes, chewing your fingernails, etc. Another way to prevent disease spread is to eat well cooked food. Eating well cooked food can stop you from getting food-related diseases. Also, if you sneeze or cough, cover it with your elbow. It's not recommended to cover your sneezes and coughs with your hands because then the pathogens get on your hands and you can still pass it on to someone else. If you get sick, you should either stay home or wear one of those masks. This way, you won't transmit the disease to other people. There are many other ways to prevent disease spread, but these are probably one of the essential ones you might want to know. Remembering all these ways is good enough to prevent the spread of bacteria.

This picture is related to my post because it shows one of the ways to prevent disease spread.

I liked how Cindy gave many examples that she does to prevent the spread of diseases, especially the part where she said "I also try to stay away from things in the public such as escalator handles and elevator buttons". That was a really good example, except I want to ask if you try to stay away from things like elevator buttons, how would you press the buttons in the elevator if you wanted to go up or down?

=David=

There are a lot of thing that I do to stop the spread of disease. One is to always cough or sneeze into your elbow, this way you don’t make anyone else sick by coughing or sneezing. I wash my hands before I eat and after I go to the bathroom, with soap. I shower every day, change my cloths, and refrain from touching sick people. But other than that there are a lot of other thing you can do to stop the spread of diseases. One is that you can do is to stay at home when you are sick. Also you should make sure to eat food that hasn’t gone bad or hasn’t been cooked properly. That helps to not get a food born disease. You should also keep food in the refrigerator to stop it from spoiling. Lastly, using antibacterial soap doesn’t do much good for us, using normal soap is much better. I agree with Glarance that you should wear a mask if you are going to a public place and you are sick. That will stop you from coughing and spreading the disease even more. [] Here is a picture of someone washing their hands and preventing disease spread.

=Kailey=

There are so many things people do to prevent the spread fo disease. Start off by making sure you stay healthy by washing your hands after you use the bathroom, and before you eat (make sure that when you turn off the dirty tap, dont do it with your clean hands). You should take a shower regullarely and brush your teeth twice a day(to prevent bad bacteria from building up in your mouth...). If your friends are sick, and it is contagiouse, then you should probably stay away from them untill they get better(nomater how much you miss them). So what happens if you DO get sick? Well, take care of yourself and others. If your infection is contagiouse you shouuld stay home from school to prevent your peers from catching what you have. If you absolutly msut go to school and its nothing serious, then make sure you sneeze and cough into your elbow /tissue (not your hand, you dont want to get your germs all over the next thing you touch).

Just like David said, you should make try to eat properly cooked food (I had forgotten about that)!



=Lukas= ** What measures can we take/do you take, personally, to prevent the spread of disease? It is often said the hygienic aspect is very important. But you can’t destroy all pathogens. So a good way to prevent the spread of disease is to make your own immune system stronger. For this it is important what you eat. A healthy diet makes your body stronger to fight against a disease and when you don’t get the disease, you can’t spread it to somebody else. Kailey made a good point when mentioning, that you should stay at home when you are sick. If a family member is already infected then try to keep on distance, don’t drink from the same glass and everybody should use his own towel. Also you have to keep up your vaccinations. **