As the norovirus cases continue to spread in the U.S., you can't rely on hand sanitizer alone to protect you, experts warn. Norovirus causes gastrointestinal symptoms like nausea, vomiting ...

But, does hand sanitizer kill norovirus? It’s a hardy virus, and it’s harder to kill than many others. As a result, some of the usual methods of preventing illness won’t work against it.

One study looked at a spate of norovirus outbreaks at nursing homes in New England during the winter of 2006–07, and found that locations where staff made regular use of hand sanitizers were at ...

But before you grab the cleaning supplies, know this: Many common disinfectants (containing things like ammonia and alcohol), hand sanitizer, and even Clorox and Lysol wipes, often do not fully ...

cooking shellfish thoroughly and washing your hands often. Hand sanitizer does not work against norovirus.

While alcohol-based hand sanitizers fail to protect against norovirus, a lengthy list of nearly 400 antimicrobial cleaning products has proven effective at killing the germs that cause the illness ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – COVID-19, RSV, norovirus, and the flu are all on the rise again and contrary to popular belief, hand sanitizer may not work to kill all of those germs. According to the ...

Ultraviolet (UV) light is another. Yet until recently, generating enough UV-C light, which is required for decontamination, has been expensive. Now, thanks in part to COVID, it is a lot cheaper.