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You (and most of the millions of holiday travelers you encounter) are washing your hands wrong

  • Written by Michelle Sconce Massaquoi, Doctoral candidate, microbiology, University of Oregon
imageNot all bathrooms are clean, which poses a problem for holiday travelers trying to keep their hands clean. Seroma72/Shutterstock.com

For my fourth-grade science fair project, I tested different soaps to see which ones were the most effective at keeping my hands clean.

Now, nearly 20 years later as a microbiology doctoral candidate, I can’t...

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