Originally Posted by Michael:
No one has said yet that washing hands kills the virus. How long is it active once on a door handle? Will a hand sanitizer work? I doubt it. One good thing is that daycare providers use a bleach solution to sanitize. I bet that works.
I was thinking more in terms of the fact that so many people don't even follow basic, easy sanitation practices like washing hands after using the bathroom. How can we expect that everyone will take more time consuming measures that require some effort to keep Ebola from spreading? I read this morning that "Ebola dried on surfaces can survive for several hours." The fact that hand washing, after possibly touching a contaminated surface, may not help just makes it all the more frightening to me.