… have pinkeye.”
Adenoviruses are resistant to many common disinfectant products. You need a cleaner with “virucidal” activity, such as bleach, according to Alex Valsamakis, director of Clinical Virology and Molecular Microbiology and a professor of pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Adenoviruses can “stay stable at room temperature for weeks” on unclean surfaces, said Valsamakis, who described this family of viruses as “environmentally hardy.”
“Wash your hands frequently and avoid touching your face,” she said to CNN. “That’s kind of the easiest way to prevent inadvertently transporting something from your fingers into your nose or mouth, which is where these are going to grow.”