The article includes information about public receptiveness to Bolivia's hand-washing campaign, which launched in April in response to mounting H1N1 fears. Plans for future study of the relationship between personal-hygiene habits and the spread of disease are also discussed (Friedman-Rudovsky, 10/22).

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