How to Keep Your Home, Office Flu Free

Another round of H1N1 vaccines are coming to Oklahoma this week. Most vaccines will go to those deemed at risk, but what about everyone else? A local company said they can help you keep your home and office flu virus free.

Monday, October 12th 2009, 4:58 pm

By: News 9


By Jennifer Pierce, NEWS 9

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Another round of H1N1 vaccines are coming to Oklahoma this week. The state health department is getting 44,000 doses of the mist and shot versions of the vaccine.

Most of those will go to those deemed at risk, but what about everyone else? A local company said they can help you keep your home and office flu virus free.

Signs are up everywhere reminding people to wash their hands and use hand sanitizer. But it's also important to keep your home and work areas clean. A local company claims they may have the key to killing H1N1.

“We sell this product to schools, daycares, nursing homes, hospitals,” said Lee Sherrell, the President of All American Industries.

Sherrell said his company’s product SaniShield does more than your average disinfectant.

“It cleans and leaves a protective barrier or coating that will last up to seven days between cleaning,” Sherrell said.

NEWS 9 tested the product on a phone and a cell phone. Sherrell and his business partner swabbed the phones and used a special instrument to test the dirtiness.

“Zero to 65 is food grade safe, 65 to 100 is clean, 100 to 200 is dirty, and anything over 200 can be infectious bacteria of some type,” said Sherrell.

Both phones showed an infectious level of bacteria, but not necessarily the flu virus.

“Now, your phone was 209 and it was cleaned with an alcohol pad this morning,” Sherrell said.

After wiping down with SaniShield, the cell phones were clean enough to eat off of.

“You could have cheesecake off your phone,” Sherrell said.

State health department officials could not comment on the claim that SaniShield can kill the H1N1 virus, but they did say proper cleaning was important in fighting off viruses and bacteria.

“The important message is that when you buy any kind of product, really make sure you use it according to direction,” said Laurence Burnsed with the Oklahoma State Health Department.

And whatever disinfectant you use clean areas that you come in contact with and clean them daily.

“Really put your focus on those areas that are touched by hands because if someone is sick that's where you deposit germs, and that's how you might pick them up,” Burnsed said.

You also want to make sure if you cough, cover your mouth with a tissue or in your elbow, that will help prevent germs from getting on your hands and onto surfaces.

In the last month and a half, the state health department said there have been more than 200 cases of people being hospitalized because of the flu. Most cases are believed to be the H1N1 virus.

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