[ChemistCat]

Thanks for the references, all. I preach handwashing and staying home if you're sick. If more of us did these two things, flu season wouldn't kick our collective butts so badly each year. (If we have a bad flu season this year, it could knock even more of the pins out from under the economy!) No bioattack will be transmitted by some new and magic means. The first people to get flu or smallpox could save a lot of lives if they will only realize that this isn't the time to be the martyr who goes to work with a 103 fever!

Maybe we need to bring back those cheesy 1950s personal hygiene films? No, wait, let's get Spielburg to make one that will be truly memorable.

Don't take any wooden nickles and don't touch any public bathroom door fixtures barehanded. :-)

[riri]

CC, do you know at what point small pox is contagious? I understand it has a ling incubation, followed by a few days of flu-like symptoms, them a rash appears on extremities and face, etc...Which stage is contagious, or are all?

Also, they now have those new anti bacterial hand washes that you can keep in the car, at your desk, etc.

[Slyfox]

I preach handwashing

That really does work. When I used to take my little kids to the park I'd ALWAYS wash their hands with a diaper wipe before I started the car to go home. They were hardly sick as kids. What is your take on colloidal silver?