Get Up And Do Something: Soaps and Hand Sanitizers: What Works Best Against Germs?

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Soaps and Hand Sanitizers: What Works Best Against Germs? Feb 9th 2013, 11:54 In this season of the flu and other bugs like the norovirus, people are constantly told that the best and first lines of defense are hand sanitizers and soaps to get rid of as many as 400,000 germs (per hand) that travel with us every day. But with so many choices on the drugstore shelf, what works best? ABC News' Chief Medical Editor Dr. Richard Besser, along with six graduate students from the University of Maryland, put them to the test in the university's Food Safety Lab. They started by deliberately coating their hands with a lab liquid with thousands of E. coli bacteria -- a harmless strain. Then they got down to testing, pressing their hands to petri dishes before and after each trial, and then putting the dishes in an incubator for two days to watch the bacteria grow.

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