Washing your hands is essential to good hygiene, stopping germs in their tracks. Washing your hands limits the transfer of ...

Brunilda Nazario, MD The germs are on your hands and either you're touching ... but certainly there are bacteria that can cause diarrhea. Narrator Other flash points for viruses and bacteria ...

Dr. Brunilda Nazario, WebMD Senior Medical Editor Even though your hands look clean, you still have germs—bacteria's everywhere. Aside from the usual recommendations like regular hand washing ...

While scrubbing surfaces with alcohol-based cleaners may help kill germs, washing your hands is still the best defense against viruses and bacteria. "There is no practical way to sterilize or ...

Hand sanitiser is a gel or foam that kills germs and infectious bacteria. It is used as an alternative to hand-washing, and comes in two main varieties, those that are alcohol-based and those ...

About 2.4 million cases of food poisoning occur in the UK every year, according to the Food Standards Agency. While restaurants and takeaways are to blame for many of these, the cause of others ...

It's no secret that washing your hands and sanitising surfaces protects against the spread of germs, bacteria, and viruses. But you may still be shocked to discover just how filthy some of our ...

using hot hand dryers, or ultraviolet lamps has no effect on this new Coronavirus strain. But there are other cases where high temperatures can kill germs — boiling water to kill off bacteria in ...