AFP reports the regular use of alcohol-based disinfecting hand gels authorities recommended during the swine flu pandemic has little effect on the disease’s infection rate, according to a US study.
The findings suggest that the pandemic virus A (H1N1) and similar strains 
may be most effectively transmitted in the air, rather than by contact with infected surfaces, the authors of the study said.
"An alcohol hand disinfectant with enhanced antiviral activity failed to significantly reduce the frequency of infection with either rhinovirus or influenza," wrote the authors of the study presented on Sunday at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in Boston.
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Participants in the study disinfected their hands roughly every three hours over ten weeks between August 25 and November 9, 2009. Of that group, 42 out of 100 contracted rhinovirus infections, compared to 51 out of 100 in the control group.
Similarly, 12 of those regularly disinfecting their hands contracted the so-called swine flu, compared to 15 in the control group.
"The hand treatment also did not significantly reduce the frequency of illnesses caused by the viruses," said the authors of the study led by Ronald Turner of the University of Virginia.
The study was financed by the Dial Corporation, which makes various care and cleaning products, including alcohol-based hand sanitiser.
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Phyllis Fenn, a standardization officer with the Alabama Department of Public Health’s bureau of environmental services, has seen the same thing – too often..jpeg)
She said the certification class helps restaurants reduce food-related illnesses as well as teaching them about the proper temperatures to cook and hold food (the temperature of food that sits out at a buffet) and proper hygiene.
This year, my wife and I spent July 4 in Parkville, Missouri. On Sunday, I found hand sanitizer at a pizza restaurant. Yes, exactly as shown, left, on a tray with grated cheese, salt, pepper, sweeteners and hand sanitizer.
in an attempt to keep it away from a crying lady – and then eating funnel cake with those same hands.
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harmful pathogens.
Nine-year-old Celia Vernon won her class science fair at Roosevelt Elementary with an experiment involving a live sample of E. coli. Under the guidance of her father, a biologist with a background in microbiology, Vernon tested several solutions on E.coli, including Purell brand hand sanitizer.
As an avid user of Apple products, I made my way to the Apple store in Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza on Saturday to try out the iPad.
I had just visited a small petting zoo near the area where I had lunch. The petting zoo had a hand-sanitizing station at the exit point, which consisted of many bottles of hand sanitizer, but no water and soap to actually wash your hands – so it wasn’t optimal, but still better than nothing at all.
To the Apple store manager, please, for events this big, some hand sanitizer would probably be a good idea – not just sanitizing the products at the end of the day.
“How would you like that done?”
Must run in the family. When I returned the table-top, the first thing a server did was wipe it down with a cloth soaked in sanitary solution.
When she was strong and co-ordinated enough to sit on her with a seatbelt on the seat behind the handle, a battle of wills soon emerged as Sorenne would have her hands on the handle, then in her mouth, or worse, would try to suckle the handle. 
Last year, USA Today reported
