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Hand sanitisers in public won't wipe out the flu but they might help reduce its spread

  • Written by Trent Yarwood, Infectious Diseases Physician, Senior Lecturer, James Cook University and, The University of Queensland
Hand sanitisers in public won't wipe out the flu but they might help reduce its spreadIt's quicker to use hand sanitiser than soap and water, which means people might be more likely to use it. Shutterstock

This year’s flu season is off to an early start, with 144,000 confirmed cases so far in 2019. That’s more than twice as many confirmed cases of the flu than for all of 2018 (58,000), and almost as many as the 2017...

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