The Hot Zone
Why is bleach used as a decontainment?
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Bleach kills viruses.
They would need to use the drain hole for washing down blood and for rinsing objects with bleach. Every time blood went down the drain, they would pour bleach after it—they didn’t want Ebola getting into the Reston sewage system.
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Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (p. 323). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
