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Daily Debunker: Hand Sanitizer and Pets

Featured on Snopes today: We look into claims that hand sanitizer contains an ingredient deadly to pets, rumors that elderly COVID-19 patients in Italy may be denied medical treatment, and more.

Published March 18, 2020

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Hand sanitizer was one of the first items to disappear from store shelves when news of the coronavirus outbreak hit. Now, anyone lucky enough to own a bottle or two of the precious substance is faced with sorting out viral warnings saying hand sanitizer could kill their pets.

Some of those warnings claim the product contains ethylene glycol, a chemical compound found in antifreeze that really is dangerous to both animals and humans if ingested. But is it really a component of commercially sold hand sanitizers? Snopes.com’s Alex Kasprak reports.

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