SINGAPORE: 10% of toilet users don’t wash their hands - (The Straits Times)
December 15, 2007 – 5:54 pmStudent Judia Ngo, 21, walks out of the toilet cubicle, looks into the mirror and fixes her hair.
She then leaves the loo - without doing what mothers have always reminded their children to do: Wash your hands!
Her reasoning: Her hands did not come into contact with faecal matter and are clean.
For the complete news item, please go to http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_187162.html
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