Is that bottle of alcoholic goo effective at warding off Ebola?
"Bring on the goo," authorities say, according to International Business Times.
The CDC has said that hand hygiene is paramount in stopping the spread of Ebola. Soap and water is preferred, but hand sanitizer that contains 60 percent or more alcohol will do the trick.
Hand sanitizer sales shot up 9.4 percent in September 2014 compared to sales in September 2013, reported IRI, a market research firm, according to ABC News.
"Obviously on the hygiene side, we expect to see sales increasing," said Randy Kates, general manager at Kimberly-Clark, according to ABC News. Kates attributes the spike in sales to a mix of Ebola worry and regular cold and flu season increases.
"My wife and I went to look for some - we had to go to three different stores before we were able to find one bottle of sanitizer," Eric Williams, independent candidate for Congress told The Washington Post. "And that was at the dollar store. They had three bottles left on the shelf."
For household cleaning, Bill Horan, president of the non-profit organization Operation Blessing, told The Washington Post, "Soap and water is better than nothing, but chlorine and water is what will kill the virus and stop the spread of Ebola."
