A Dorset prison has removed anti-bacterial hand gel pumps after an inmate is thought to have got drunk drinking from them.This gel is now everywhere.
I don't want to spoil anybody's fun, but as swine flu is caused by a virus, does anti-bacterial gel do anything to prevent its spread?
2 comments:
Yes it does.
Apparently it kills 99.99% of bacteria and enveloped viruses, which includes flu. It is significantly less effective against un-enveloped viruses such as norovirus (still kills 90% of it, but that's not much use)
Thanks.
I'd better start drinking it then.
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