Elbow bump. No, that isn't the latest type of punch from the National Hockey League or Ultimate Fighting. It's the way that the World Health Organization would like us to greet each other from now on.
Yep, the handshake is seen as too efficient a way to spread disease — germs go from their nose, to their hands, to your hands to your nose and eyes — yuck! So in business and social settings we'll soon all be asked to mimic the greeting that doctors and scientists use when they are working around such diseases as the Ebola virus — to bump elbows when we want to greet another person. Welcome to the new world of bird flu
full story @ abc news
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