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A new and way of greeting and showing has been found to be more than shaking hands. Sports players do it after a scores. Rock stars and do it onstage at awards ceremonies. U.S. President Barack Obama does it. It's fist bumping - like a high , except the hand is closed into a and the other person's fist is nudged, knuckles to . Researchers in Wales have discovered that this twenty-first- greeting spreads one- of the germs than a handshake does and around one-tenth of the germs in a high five.

The fist bump started with American gangs in the 1940s. It was and safer to fist bump than to shake hands when two were side by side. It got exposure in 2008 when President Obama and his wife Michelle fist bumped during a presidential campaign . There is less contact during a fist bump so there is less of spreading germs. A researcher said: "People rarely think about the implications of shaking hands, but…there is a genuine potential to reduce the spread of diseases.

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