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September 24, 2019

Well this sucks -- hand sanitizer leaves a lot of bad stuff on your hands

They focused on the flu virus at Towards better hand hygiene for flu prevention. Excerpt:

The influenza A virus (IAV) remains infectious in wet mucus from infected patients, even after being exposed to an ethanol-based disinfectant (EBD) for two full minutes, report researchers at Kyoto Profectural University of Medicine, in Japan. Fully deactivating the virus, they found, required nearly four minutes of exposure to the EBD.

Dang. Four minutes is a long time. It might be easier to simply use soap and water. But then how long would we have to rub our hands together?

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4:50 PM 9/23/2019

Posted by on September 24, 2019 at 06:51 AM in Health Care, Just trying to be helpful |

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