most infections are caused by by basic hygiene, scratching your hoo haw with hands that have touched other things, including other parts of your body.
you touch raw meat as part of food prep (and women do most of the cooking)
it’s well known and adopted that you need to wash your hands after touching raw meat, which ought to help prevent
fingernails. Slime from raw meat also gets under your fingernails and most of us do not wash that well.

We have a series of observations leading to germs under fingernails after handling uncooked food as a possible disease vector. If it is a significant vector, how do you prevent it? I doubt people will start washing hands to that level of detail, but you already have a lot of cooks wearing latex gloves during food prep which should prevent it in the first place

[–] philpo@feddit.org 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Sadly it won't help much if at all (that is why they are not required in professional kitchens per se)- people still touch things they should not and then touch these things ungloved.

There sadly are various studies proving this.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

In fact, while gloved, they touch more things they shouldn't and then some with fewer hand washings overall, so... Win. 🤢🫡

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Bummer

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, they touch that too

[–] astutemural@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago

As an alternative, consider not eating meat.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Just go vegetarian.

[–] python@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Unironically, that might be the way. I used to have UTIs like every few months and now that I think about it, I haven't had one since going vegan in January.