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Soaps and Hand Sanitizers: What Works Best Against Germs?

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...Full Story
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