Covering Your Mouth When You Cough or Sneeze

Most people use their hands to cover their mouth when sneezing or coughing but this is not an effective way of halting infection unless you thoroughly disinfect your hands afterwards. Studies show that when you cough or sneeze into your hands, your hands is covered with virus.

Respiratory illnesses such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome {SARS}, Whooping Cough and Influenza are spread by coughing or sneezing and infected hands {unclean hands}. Viruses are spread from one person to another either by shaking hands or touching people or by touching door handles, tables, furniture and other items.

To stop the spread of germs:
- Please cover your mouth and nose with a tissue and dispose immediately.


- If a tissue is not available, use the crook of your elbow to cover your mouth and nose as recommended by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)


- If you sneeze into your hand, wash with warm soapy water and soap.


- If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol based scrub e. g. Hibiscrub


- Teach children how to cough properly to help reduce the spread. Catch them young!


THANK YOU FOR REDUCING THE SPREAD OF AIRBORNE DISEASE. AHHHCHOOOOOO!!!!!!