Article: GERMS MUCH PREFER PEOPLE TO SHEETS AND TOWELS.(Spotlight)

Byline: Rebecca Jones Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer

My wife insists on changing (and washing or having cleaned, where appropriate) towels, sheets, pillowcases, blankets, toothbrushes, clothing, the bags inside wastebaskets, outerwear, gloves, etc., ad nauseum ad infinitum after one or more of the three of us have gotten over a bad cold or the flu. To what extent can a human being reinfect himself after a sickness? After all, germs cannot live on the above items indefinitely, can they? - Ralph Spencer

First of all, you can't reinfect yourself at all, says Dr. Richard Hoffman, chief medical officer for the Colorado Department of Public Health and ...

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