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A new(ish) and alternative form greeting and showing respect has been found to be more hygienic than shaking hands. We have all seen it TV. Basketball and baseball players do it a teammate scores. Rock stars and actors do it onstage awards ceremonies. Even U.S. President Barack Obama does it. What is it? Well, it's fist bumping. It's kind like a high five, except the hand is clenched a ball and the other person's fist is given a gentle nudge, knuckles to knuckles. Researchers the University of Aberystwyth Wales have discovered that this twenty-first-century greeting spreads one-twentieth the germs than a traditional handshake does and around one tenth of the germs a high five.

An article Wikipedia explains that the fist bump originated American motorcycle gangs in 1940s. It was easier and safer to fist bump another rider than to shake hands when two bikes were side side at traffic lights. It achieved global exposure 70 years later when 2008, President Obama and his wife Michelle fist bumped a televised presidential campaign speech. There is less skin-to-skin contact during a fist bump so the chance spreading germs is lower. A researcher said: "People rarely think the health implications shaking hands, but if the general public could be encouraged to fist bump, there is a genuine potential to reduce the spread infectious diseases.

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