FIST BUMP

A MORE HYGENIC
ALTERNATIVE TO
HANDSHAKE

Authors : David E. Whitworth

PhD
& Sara Mela BSc
Professors at Aberystwyth University, United
Kingdom

: American Journal of
Infection Control. Vol-42, Issue-8, Aug14
Source

Official Publication of

The Association for

Professionals in Infection
Control and Epidemiology

 The handshake is a common greeting

in many cultures, but it has the
potential to transmit infectious
organisms between individuals.
An experimental model and assay for
bacterial transmission via physical
contact was developed using
standard microbiologic methods.

Experiment
A greeting donor immersed a sterilegloved hand into adense culture of
nonpathogenic Escherichia coli and
allowed a film of bacteria to dry onto
the glove.
A greeting was then exchanged with
a sterile-gloved recipient.

Hand Shake

High Five

Fist Bump

Results of the Experiment

Nearly twice as many bacteria were
transferred during a handshake
compared with a high five
Whereas the fist bump consistently
gave the lowest transmission
With this they concluded that
Fist Bump is a more hygienic way
to greet others

My Views
Everyone was in awe of Barack
Obamas new way of greeting in his
recent tour of china.

He tweeted the reason for his new

style of greeting with reference to
this article on his twitter account.

Obamas Tweet
I loved the way of greeting in India
which is nothing but traditional
Namaskara is even hygienic than a
fist bumb.
The Fist Bump: A more Hygienic
Alternative to the Handshake.
has to be changed to.
The Namaskara: The most
Hygienic way of Greeting.

Conclusion
I want to relate this article and suggestion made
by the President of America to our views
towards English.
As we have discussed western world is looking
after us for everything, why should we go after
their pronunciation, rules, etc in English.
Instead we should improve our English with
respect to Indian context, pronunciation, and
our own set of rules. That will lead to the
natural way of English Language
Acquisition.

In relation with this article I conclude our

Indian way of dealing English is much
better like our traditional Namaskara