One of the most basic things that people are being pushed to do is to wash their hands. This is needed to kill the viruses. But how does that really happen? How to kill at Virus So why does soap work so well on the Sars-CoV-2, the coronavirus and indeed most viruses? The short story: because the virus is a self-assembled nanoparticle in which the weakest link is the lipid (fatty) bilayer. Soap dissolves the fat membrane and the virus falls apart like a house of cards and dies – or rather, we should say it becomes inactive as viruses aren’t really alive.
Did you know? Virus
Did you know? Virus
Did you know? Virus
One of the most basic things that people are being pushed to do is to wash their hands. This is needed to kill the viruses. But how does that really happen? How to kill at Virus So why does soap work so well on the Sars-CoV-2, the coronavirus and indeed most viruses? The short story: because the virus is a self-assembled nanoparticle in which the weakest link is the lipid (fatty) bilayer. Soap dissolves the fat membrane and the virus falls apart like a house of cards and dies – or rather, we should say it becomes inactive as viruses aren’t really alive.