Lots of gems are carried on one's hands, Kim... Where ever you go you are touching doors and other public things where flu germs have been inadvertantly left to be spread. Thin about Christmas shopping and how many folks used the restrooms or picked up a shirt or... It's endless.... Like I said, wazsh your hands as many times a day as you can. It only takes *one* germ to find you and then it multiplies in its new host (you) like rabbits, except much faster and then.....

I've been washing my hands 6 times a day or more and if in a public restroom using a towell to open the door on the way out...

Paranoid? No... Just dedicated to not gettin' sick...

Bobert