Can I get H1N1 from grading papers?
Poke around the CDC website for general information and try to take the basic precautions against the flu such as hand hygiene, not touching your face, etc. -Keep at least 6 ft. away from students and have them deposit their papers in the grading box, or if you can, ask someone else to pick up the exams for you. -If you feel better about it don a surgical/respirator mask, but they’re more effective at keeping people with the flu from passing it along then protecting you. Unfortunately you don’t have the ability to don the eye protection, mask, gown and gloves that we do in the hospital. -Handle the papers/instruments with gloves and then disinfect the area afterward. -If you feel like you’re coming down with any influenze like symptoms, do go see your doctor. Although it won’t be useful for H1N1, since you are high risk, he may give you an anti-viral.
I understand, exogenous. Permit me to expand – I was looking for examples of paper in the oven – but of what I found the paper was wetted in a fashion. Whether the instruction to check was for “aging” or risk of fire wasn’t as explicit as I would have liked it to be, it’s all I’ve got short of getting the fire crew down to my house while experimenting for her. I encourage you to create your own equivalent set of papers, written, typed, stapled, paperclipped – whatever real world equivalent works for you, and try your advice out – I’m interested in the results given the lack of ‘net resources. If we don’t have a big fire boom, I guess the next step would be to dig up germs and testing equipment. Update: Went to look for more and found a contact dry spray: http://www.mistersterile.com/products/all-products/saniguard-dry-on-contact-sanitising-product.
