More alarmists.Don't trust any of them.Have a look at who employs Graham Cooke and what their motivations are.It is all about control.The global warming alarmists failed at climategate and now they have to find a new tack.

It is the genetic diversty of any species than ensures survival.This is why the Royal family needed Dianna Spencer.They were starting to breed idiots.

We had global cooling,global warming,Y2k bug,bird flu,swine flu,perhaps we need some logic flu,and then sweep these alarmist charlatans into black hole of their lust for power.

it is the lack of soap and water after performing bodily functions, before preparing food and eating and so on. Soap and water is the simple and effective way to dramatically reduce the spread of infections.
Cornflower,
I won't say your statement is incorrect because I don't have the kind of proof that is needed to convince today's sterile society. I work with water & I witness how easily the city slickers get sick at the slightest impurity of any food & exposure. Country folk have more immunity when it comes to a little grime. You're correct that soap dramatically reduces the spread of infection in an environment which has been rather sterile for decades but it also reduces resilience by killing natural immune systems. Far too much damage is being done to the environment by medical & cleaning materials & consequent waste.

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For info:

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32556&Cr=diarrhoea&Cr1

Some sound health advice would go down better than another doomsday scenario. The UN should attack overpopulation, corrupt regimes, lack of sanitation, lack of democracy, poor education and health issues in developing nations and forget about carbon emissions. We then might not have to worry about viruses and bacteria arising out of these places.

The fantastic fiasco at Copenhagen has caused this poor old geriatric a major insecurity problem ; he's hit the Big Red Button , like Rudd a week before Copenhagen the only solution for their fiscal future is the same as all the Fakes that came before them in History "Panic the Population"

For crying out loud Cornflower, nothing personal but you sure picked the worst examples of competence & integrity by listening to the UN & some idealistic academic.
You are of course right that cleanliness is the best way to combat decease but think of it this way. None of these deceases are borne of handshakes or any other basic interaction. Decease comes from all sorts of sources & invariably finds its way to humans. I'm no authority on these things but I do believe that the more we combat decease the more decease gets the upper hand. I have worked in a hospital & I was totally dismayed at the effort & resources that was expended for the same mutts coming in for treatment of injury from fighting, football, promis cuity, living so sterile that their immune system literally was outdone by a simple cold etc.Yes, medical research has produced great results & we constantly hear of how many millions of lives will be saved. Great ! Who's going to provide food, shelter & jobs for all these "saved" people ? If science can find a way to expand the planet at the same rate as the population well, no probs ! Maybe science will create a mass exodus to some far away planet ? Hmmh ! That would help. Can I come ? Just as the industrial revolution has provided machinery to put people on welfare, medicine will put people on the streets. Many more people will live longer & depend on those who work, hooray !