Global Handwashing Day

The International hands - washing day was organized by the World Health Organization - WHO launched and is held annually on 15 October; for the first time it was committed in 2008.

Target groups of the International hands - washing tags are adults and children, nursery schools, such as schools, nursing homes and hospitals as well as other health care facilities. Intensive washing hands with soap before and should be done after eating, after using the toilet or before and after diapers and wrap in particular. From an exaggeration of shaking hands is discouraged. A regular and ordinary washing hands - after soaping rubbing not less than half a minute, and especially of the fingers and the thumb - to prevent the spread of infectious diseases such as influenza A virus H1N1, as a large part of all infectious diseases transmitted via the hands will.