The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are the U.S. authority for protocols involving surface disinfection. They have issued Guidelines on many aspects of Ebola prevention and containment.
General information from the CDC:
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Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Hospitalized Patients with Known or Suspected Ebola Virus Disease in U.S. Hospitals
What Surface Disinfectants Are Effective Against Ebola?
The EPA has issued a list of disinfectants to be used against ebola virus. Click here to go to this webpage. Note that this list is not inclusive of all disinfectants that are effective against ebola.
Before the EPA published the list of disinfectants to be used against ebola virus, the criteria was:
“Use a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-registered hospital disinfectant with a label claim for a non-enveloped virus (e.g., norovirus, rotavirus, adenovirus, poliovirus) to disinfect environmental surfaces in rooms of patients with suspected or confirmed Ebola virus infection.”
From the CDC Guideline Interim Guidance for Environmental Infection Control in Hospitals for Ebola Virus (click on title to go to CDC web page.)
The EPA requires registration of all disinfectants and maintains lists of disinfectants effective against particular pathogens. List G is the EPA’s list of disinfectants effective against norovirus. Click here to go List G on the EPA website. There is no EPA list of registered disinfectants effective against rotavirus, adenovirus or poliovirus.
UGS Medical & Dental carries several products on the EPA ebola virus list and/or have EPA-registered claims for norovirus or rotavirus. See the list at right for these products. Please contact us if you need the Technical Bulletin detailing the pathogens tested and their methods, for any of these products.
About norovirus:
Because norovirus is not stable during testing, there is no test to determine disinfection efficacy against it. Therefore, a very closely related virus to norovirus that is stable is used instead. One of these stable, closely related viruses is feline calicivirus. If a disinfectant is tested effective against feline calicivirus, it is considered by the EPA to be effective against norovirus.
Norovirus was originally called Norwalk virus.
What PPE Should Be Used, and How?
See the CDC's Guidance on Personal Protective Equipment To Be Used by Healthcare Workers During Management of Patients with Ebola Virus Disease in U.S. Hospitals, Including Procedures for Putting On (Donning) and Removing (Doffing)
