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This Flu Season, Try The “Evanston Elbow”
Skip the handshake and stop the spread of germs.
A recent study by Stanford University biology professor, Dr. Nathan Wolfe (not to be confused with my eight-year-old son, Nathan Wolf) suggests cutting out the practice of shaking hands to ward off the spread of germs. Wolfe recommends bumping elbows. I’m intrigued. Think about it. Chicago has its own style of hot dog. Venezuela has the Macarena. Philadelphia has the Watusi. If Evanston wants to make its mark internationally, we should start the Evanston Elbow. Sound far fetched? Not so fast. Savvy Patch readers surely recall how Matt Damon rubbed elbows in Evanston while filming a scene for Contagion, his movie about an airborne virus that spreads into a worldwide pandemic. The Evanston Elbow seems like a natural “outbreak”, as it were, …
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John Brinkmann
4:48 am on Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Interesting Christine, but the immune system protects the body from disease by learning to adapt and attack anything foreign to it---we can run but we cant hide a bottle of Purel or elbows---:D The importance of the handshake is an integral part of virtually every culture in the world http://soc302.tripod.com/soc_302rocks/id8.html more ›