Many common disinfectants (containing things like ammonia and alcohol), hand sanitizer, and even Clorox and Lysol wipes, ...

Clorox and Scrubbing Bubbles to industrial strength cleaners that must be diluted before use — have made the list of EPA registered products that kill norovirus. The webpage provides a ...

With norovirus surging in New York, here's how to check if your cleaning products are effective at killing the stomach bug.

Don gloves. It is necessary to wear gloves while cleaning during and after a bout of norovirus, and to wash your hands after removing and disposing of the gloves. “Even if you are wearing gloves, wash ...

The vile stomach bug, which causes nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, is extremely contagious, and it takes a lot more than ...

Only certain cleaners kill norovirus ... cleaners and cleansing wipes don't work against non-enveloped viruses, such as norovirus. Non-enveloped viruses don't have or need a phospholipid bilayer ...

One thing that won’t kill norovirus ... many viruses, norovirus has a protein shell called a capsid that can’t easily be wiped away by alcohol-based disinfecting products.

The government has also warned parents that alcohol gels do not kill ... against norovirus. Instead, you should use soap and warm water to wash your hands and bleach-based products to clean ...

"Norovirus is different from the flu and cold viruses in that it survives contact with alcohol. Some of the hand sanitizers we use do not ... using products that contain bleach to kill the germs.

A unique aspect of the norovirus is that typical alcohol-based hand sanitizers and chlorine disinfectant wipes do not work to kill the virus, Avera Health family medicine physician Dr. Chad Thury ...