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Today we will be talking about infection control in public.
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As we all know, that there are so many infectious agents prevailing in our environment, and we are always at risk of contaminating ourselves with those infectious pathogens and pollutants.
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So what we can do to reduce our risk of getting infectious diseases, well, there are certain public health majors that we can take to prevent the spread, of these infectious agents.
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We will be discussing some of these public health majors today.
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The first major is to maintain personal and public hygiene.
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Here what we can do is we can first maintain ourselves, that is to maintain our personal hygiene by keeping ourselves clean, taking a bath daily, ensuring that we wash hands after coming before eating, after eating, after using washrooms, as well as what we can do, we can try to consume healthy and nutritious food where we can consume nutritious food to keep our immune system strong.
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We can try to consume clean drinking water because lots of pathogens transmit from water.
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We can also try to maintain public hygiene by ensuring that we are properly disposing waste materials, excreta, and as well as disinfecting our water reservoirs.
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What else we can do is that is to isolate infected people.
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Despite of taking so many majors, we know that many people get infected every now and then...