Increased awareness of hand washing is a means of prevention.

We consider hand washing to be the best way Thio prevent the spread of some of these respiratory viruses, growing awareness of not just Corona virus but the prevention of colds and flu.

Having an impact on Akron based Go Joe Industries, the manufacturer of the popular Pierre L.

Hand sanitizer companies, saying it's seeing a substantial increase in demand and as a result, it has increased production significantly.

Among the places where their product is used is at the headquarters of the Starr County Health Department.

We want to make sure that we're practicing what we preach.

So we do have hand sanitizer available at several locations, definitely our bathrooms up in our clinics, just kind of all around to make sure that we're all practicing good hand hygiene in hospitals, grocery stores, yes, wash my hands a lot at home, and even when I'm out someplace before I do anything, we go anyplace like coming in here, wiping off the cart or anyplace else that we go, you know, take sanitizers and use them.

Go Joe is not permitted by the FDA to make any claim around the efficacy of Purell against any specific virus, though the company states its surface disinfectants have demonstrated effectiveness against the strain of human corona virus companies, saying the increase in demand is across all of its markets, especially at the retail and on law.

When you go to the CDC websites and you're looking at the whole thing about the flu virus or the Corona virus right now, the number one thing they're telling us is to wash hands.

If it happens that it's, you know, this crew and virus outbreak that's causing that way can't be sad about that.

In Akron, Dave Nethers Fox, eight news.