{"589851":{"#nid":"589851","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Hand Sanitizer Won\u0027t Stop an Office Outbreak\u2014If Your Coworker Doesn\u0027t Care","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAccording to a study published by Georgia Tech researchers\u0026nbsp;in\u0026nbsp;the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/srep44122\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EScientific Reports\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E, healthy people who take measures to avoid getting sick cannot fully eradicate the spread of disease without an infected individual taking preemptive steps first. Instead, the sick individual in question needs to take steps to avoid infecting anyone else, and the main motivator for taking those steps seems to be empathy --\u0026nbsp;the ability to understand the feelings of others. \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/s1.eksin.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECeyhun Eksin\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/joshua-weitz\u0022\u003EJoshua S. Weitz\u003C\/a\u003E collaborated on the study with a researcher from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Eksin\u0026nbsp;is a postdoctorate fellow in Weitz\u0026#39;s lab in the\u0026nbsp;School of Biological Sciences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-04-06 01:27:53","changed_gmt":"2017-04-07 13:25:15","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"technology and the arts","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.invisiverse.com\/news\/hand-sanitizer-wont-stop-office-outbreak-if-your-coworker-doesnt-care-0176691\/","dateline":{"date":"2017-03-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-03-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"589849":{"id":"589849","type":"image","title":"Ceyhun Eksin","body":null,"created":"1491440563","gmt_created":"2017-04-06 01:02:43","changed":"1491440563","gmt_changed":"2017-04-06 01:02:43","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224721","name":"Ceyhun Eksin.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Ceyhun%20Eksin.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Ceyhun%20Eksin.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":715219,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Ceyhun%20Eksin.jpg?itok=Qke1Woym"}}},"media_ids":["589849"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"173979","name":"Ceyhun Eosin"},{"id":"173980","name":"Joshua S. Weitz"},{"id":"173779","name":"empathy"},{"id":"398","name":"health"},{"id":"56151","name":"healing"},{"id":"1003","name":"Infectious diseases"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}