"We might send the whole school home because we want to sanitize the building, " he said.

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It's also a good idea to thoroughly clean and sanitize your cooking utensils, oven, stovetop and cookware.

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Because of the children's delicate immune systems, they are required to sanitize their hands throughout the day.

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Disney will sanitize and preserve the best of the Star Wars universe.

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Sanitize your hands before eating, drinking and after retrieving something from the overhead bin or returning from the restroom, and you have just cut your chances of getting infected by at least 40 percent.

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There may be no way to completely sanitize a pool, but the latest analysis of what could be lurking in the water should motivate lifeguards and pool managers to be more vigilant about testing those waters more frequently.

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"It's not going to happen tomorrow, but within a period of weeks or a month you're going to see some dramatic changes in the organization to where we can provide added protection and possibly sanitize that mail that is coming into our network, " Weaver said.

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