美国人被发现不讲卫生

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考虑到美国市场上抗菌产品的种类繁多,你可能会认为美国人痴迷于消毒。但如果美国微生物学会(ASM)发起的“清洁双手运动”的新研究表明,你就错了。尽管95%的受访者声称在使用公共洗手间后会洗手,但根据今天在ASM的抗菌剂和化疗跨科学会议上公布的调查结果,实际上只有67%的人这样做。

ASM秘书朱迪·戴利观察到:“虽然乍一看这似乎很有趣,但这确实是一个非常严肃的问题。 更多人尽自己的一份力量来控制感染的传播,我们就越不需要使用抗生素,随着细菌对抗生素产生耐药性,抗生素的效力会随着时间推移而降低。”


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尽管该运动已努力了四年,并且媒体也更加关注传染病的出现和传播,但美国人仍然没有意识到这一点。 事实上,大多数人现在洗手的可能性比最初调查时更低(见图表)。 戴利评论说,更令人不安的是,“情况可能比看起来更糟,因为有些人可能已经发现了观察员,并担心‘妈妈在看着’”。 “在没有其他人的情况下,这个数字甚至可能大大减少。”

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大众科学 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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