National Handwashing Awareness Week is Dec. 5-11
National Handwashing Awareness Week is Dec. 5-11, 2010.
National Handwashing Awareness Week is Dec. 5-11, 2010. For hand hygiene tips and instruction from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, visit:
  http://www.cdc.gov/cleanhands/ http://www.cdc.gov/features/handwashing/Â
To access the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Five Moments for Hand Hygiene, visit http://www.who.int/gpsc/tools/Five_moments/en/index.html
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