Remember the NanobugsYesterday was my grandson, Alex's, first birthday. In the evening we had a little family gathering to celebrate with cake and presents. It was a fun time with Alex smearing cake and blue frosting all over his face and chest! There was a lot of laughter and some great photo "ops". My other grandchildren were enjoying the event and frolicking in the grass outside as we bathed the "blue-frosted baby". After the family left, I sat down to write yesterday's blog about West Nile Virus infections. Today, as I reread my own advice to "keep children inside at dusk and the early evening when mosquitoes feed", I remembered how difficult it can be to comply with avoidance techniques to prevent infections. Parents have a big job teaching, training and insuring compliance with recommended behavioral changes. I also remember when I was the infection control coordinator in a local hospital, that achieving employee compliance with infection prevention and control procedures was one of the biggest challenges of that job. That is one of the reasons I created Nanobugs - to provide leverage for parents with changing behaviors and improving compliance with activities like handwashing. I have a dream that someday Nanobugs will be so much a part of our culture that people will refer to microbes by their scientific names and parents will reinforce the importance of avoidance techniques by referring to the Nanobugs. Maybe it will even be socially acceptable to confront someone leaving a public restroom without washing their hands with a comment like, "Remember the Nanobugs!"
This entry was posted on June 20th, 2007 at 12:00 am. RSS
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