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Honestly, if you've got norovirus rolling through your household, the CDC's recommendation is to pretty much bleach as much of your house as possible. And laun
by Fomite 8y ago
Honestly, if you've got norovirus rolling through your household, the CDC's recommendation is to pretty much bleach as much of your house as possible.
And laundry as a source of transmission is pretty well known in infectious disease epidemiology. One of the biggest issues is not that people get it from clothing, but that the person who handles contaminated clothing is also quite likely to be the person who preps food. Norovirus only needs a very small number of viral particles to make you sick, and a kid sick on either end is shedding a lot of virus.
- krageon 8y agoIn a household full of disease you should be disinfecting (I mean with ethanol, not with soap) your hands before you handle the food anyway.
- Fomite 8y agoSoap works better against a number of pathogens, most notably sporulated C. difficile. And while yes, you should, multiple different pathways to reducing your fomite exposure are better than relying on a single point of failure.
- robbrown451 8y agoWell they handle the dirty laundry when putting it in the machine don't they? How does this help with that?
- Fomite 8y agoAnother recommendation is "Wash your hands after handling laundry".