[Publib] hand sanitizer in libraries

[Backwage at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/12/2009 7:17:10 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
mmears at enid.org writes:

I  apologize if this question has been asked before, but with the predicted 
 resurgence of H1N1 we are considering installing a hand sanitizer stand at 
the  entrance.


Why?  The primary transmission of H1N1 is through inhaled  droplets.  
Physical contact is way down the line.  And a person would  have to touch an 
infected person, particularly around the nose and mouth, and  then immediately 
touch their own nose or mouth.  A person could sanitize  their hands, then 
touch a person with flu, then touch their mouth and the  sanitization would 
have had no effect.  Whistling in the dark at best, and  for a disease whose 
effects have been demonstrated to have no worse mortality or  morbidity than 
any other form of flu.  Laboratory-confirmed cases  of swine flu reported to 
the World Health Organization (WHO) show a mortality  rate of 0.4%, in line 
with seasonal flu.
 
I would think that librarians would be good enough researchers to have  
figured all this out and dismissed the problem as de minimis.  
 
M. McGrorty
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