Medical Health Cluster

24 marzo, 2022

Preventing Norovirus

Practice proper hand hygiene

Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water

  • especially after using the toilet or changing diapers,
  • always before eating, preparing, or handling food, and
  • before giving yourself or someone else medicine.

Norovirus can be found in your vomit or feces (poop) even before you start feeling sick. The virus can also stay in your feces for two weeks or more after you feel better. It is important to continue washing your hands often during this time.

You can use hand sanitizers in addition to hand washing, but you should not use hand sanitizer as a substitute for washing your hands with warm water and soap. Handwashing is always best.

Hand sanitizers aren’t as effective as washing hands with water and soap at removing norovirus particles. See “Handwashing: Clean Hands Save Lives.”

https://www.cdc.gov/norovirus/about/prevention.html


Créditos: Comité científico Covid

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