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Travel Clinic and Clinic for Tropical Medicine in Munich > Communicable Diseases, Infections and Hygiene >
Personal hygiene: Still the most important prevention of communicable diseases
Cleanliness and personal hygiene are still considered as the most important means to prevent communicable diseases.
Among those are: viral infections of the upper respiratory tract, food poisoning, influenza, viral gastroenteritis, infections with parasites, ectoparasites (lice, scabies) and worms (threadworms oxyuriasis), infections of the scin (impetigo), infections in the hospital such as MRSA (methicillin resistant Staph. aureus) and Clostridium difficile.
Simple measures such as washing hands are extremely useful in the prevention.
