美國人被發現不講衛生

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考慮到美國市場上抗菌產品的種類繁多,你可能會認為美國人痴迷於消毒。但如果美國微生物學會(ASM)發起的“清潔雙手運動”的新研究表明,你就錯了。儘管95%的受訪者聲稱在使用公共洗手間後會洗手,但根據今天在ASM的抗菌劑和化療跨科學會議上公佈的調查結果,實際上只有67%的人這樣做。

ASM秘書朱迪·戴利觀察到:“雖然乍一看這似乎很有趣,但這確實是一個非常嚴肅的問題。 更多人儘自己的一份力量來控制感染的傳播,我們就越不需要使用抗生素,隨著細菌對抗生素產生耐藥性,抗生素的效力會隨著時間推移而降低。”


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儘管該運動已努力了四年,並且媒體也更加關注傳染病的出現和傳播,但美國人仍然沒有意識到這一點。 事實上,大多數人現在洗手的可能性比最初調查時更低(見圖表)。 戴利評論說,更令人不安的是,“情況可能比看起來更糟,因為有些人可能已經發現了觀察員,並擔心‘媽媽在看著’”。 “在沒有其他人的情況下,這個數字甚至可能大大減少。”

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大眾科學 focused on evolution, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, paleontology and animal behavior. She is fascinated by human origins, which she has covered for more than 25 years. Recently she has become obsessed with birds. Her reporting has taken her to caves in France and Croatia that Neandertals once called home, to the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana in search of the oldest stone tools in the world, to Madagascar on an expedition to unearth ancient mammals and dinosaurs, to the icy waters of Antarctica, where humpback whales feast on krill, and on a "Big Day" race around the state of Connecticut to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours. Kate is co-author, with Donald Johanson, of Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. She holds a bachelor of science degree in biological anthropology and zoology from the University of Michigan. Follow Wong on X (formerly Twitter) @katewong

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