Preventing Norovirus ...hand sanitizers may increase the risk... new strain emerges in U.S.

[Cllcanada]

Alcohol-based hand sanitizers may not be the panacea for hand hygiene they were once supposed, as mounting research indicates they may not be effective substitutes for soap and water, and in some cases may actually increase the risk for outbreaks of highly contagious viruses in health care settings.

Ian Goodfellow, a prominent researcher at England's University of Cambridge, calls norovirus "the Ferrari of viruses" for the speed at which it passes through a large group of people.

Wash your hands frequently with hot water and soap, use bleach in bathrooms and around sinks...

cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrht...

cmaj.ca/content/183/12/E799...

cdc.gov/norovirus/preventin...

[Oleboyredw-uk]

All reads logically until you get to the hand drying part in one of the PDFs that suggest drying using clean towel or air dryer. (Air dryer .... Yuk, spread it all around). The rest seems good to me.

Rob

[Cllcanada Top Poster CURE Hero]

Good point...

A girls' football team from Canada was taken ill after a team-mate developed the illness - but she had had no contact with them.

The culprit was a grocery bag in the corner of the bathroom she had used.

One in 20 people in the UK suffer from norovirus each year

Aerosolised particles of the virus landed on the grocery bag, and spread to members of the team who touched the bag or ate the packaged crisps and cookies inside it, according to research published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

bbc.co.uk/news/health-20758754