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To: JameRetief
because we are using antibacterial soaps on a much larger scale, the more resistant forms of the virus

I'm no doctor, but I don't believe antibiotics are useful against viruses anyway. They aren't "bacteria," they are just little chunks of RNA. I think there is even a debate as to whether they are "alive" in the usual sense of that word.

15 posted on 01/23/2003 4:49:44 PM PST by Nick Danger (Find Hans Blix in the pizza and win a chemical weapons arsenal)
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To: Nick Danger
I don't believe antibiotics are useful against viruses anyway

Although the soaps are typically labeled antibacterial, they are actually antimicrobial, meaning they affect viruses as well as bacteria.

39 posted on 01/23/2003 10:38:06 PM PST by JameRetief
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