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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Not All Antiseptic Hand Gels Kill Germs

From Zap*Germs, which reviews recent studies on alcohol hand gels:
A surprising discovery has been published in Emerging Infectious Diseases: alcohol-based hand gels with less than 60% alcohol can't be counted on to kill most harmful bacteria and viruses...
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