Reduce Regular facials and hand hygiene, transmission of infection during the influenza season, a new study shows.Researchers from the University of Michigan School of Public Health stated (UMSPH) by Allison E. Aiello, recruited more than 1,400 students live in the university.

Dormitories during the 2006-2007 influenza season.The participants were one of three groups: those who face masks, those who wore masks and using alcohol-based hand sanitizer or a controlled group that received no intervention was assigned.

The students were monitored for flu-like symptoms for six weeks. The participants so far a basic hand hygiene training video.

Patients in the hand hygiene and mask group received an alcohol-based hand sanitizer and written instructions for proper use of the mask and sanitizer.In the mask group, a written instructions to the face mask use only. The students began with the measures only after confirmation of influenza laboratory on the campus of the University of Michigan had been made.

Discovered in the hand sanitizer mask group, Aiello and researchers, a reduction in flu-like symptoms ranging from 35 to 51 percent compared with the control group, said a release UMSPH.

The findings were published online in the February issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases.