Earlier this week, former President George W. Bush can be seen shaking hands with some local Haitian people and then apparently wiping his hand on his predecessor and former President Bill Clinton. This entire incident was captured in full and uploaded to YouTube on March 23, 2010. The video itself is just under 40 seconds in length. The point at which former President Bush wipes his hand occurs at 14 seconds into the video.

Former Presidents Bush and Clinton were traveling around Haiti this week in their first joint tour of the area. The two of them took a tour of Port-au-Prince which was devastated back in January by an earthquake.

Current President Barack Obama has made some statements in the past which allege that George W. Bush uses hand sanitizer with some frequency. When Obama met with former President Bush at The White House during the time he had published his 2006 book Audacity of Hope, Bush reportedly turned to an aide shortly after shaking hands with Obama. The aide then apparently proceeded to squirt some hand sanitizer into Bush's hands.

The Huffington Post reported in a story at that time, "The two men shook hands and then, according to Obama, Bush turned to an aide, 'who squirted a big dollop of hand sanitizer in the president's hand.'"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/09/obama-meets-bush-what-to_n_142554.html After this, Bush then is reported to have offered Obama a squirt too. Obama, later said that he did not want to seem unhygienic in front of Bush, so, "[he] took a squirt."http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/09/obama-meets-bush-what-to_n_142554.html

The reporter who wrote about Bush's hand wiping incident on The Huffington Post speculates that the video offers further proof of former President Bush's long-speculated obsession with cleanliness.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/george-w-bush-wipes-hand_n_511188.html

In recent years, with proliferation of products such as Purell, instant hand sanitizers have become popular. Many offices and restaurants have such products installed on the walls of bathrooms, for example, for employee use.http://biology.about.com/od/microbiology/a/handsanitizers.htm

Defined by the FDA as Hand Antiseptic, these products can be used in supplement to, or in leu of, washing your hands with warm soap and water. Because most of these products purposely contain alcohol, they dry very quickly after application and do not require using any additional paper wipes. Manufactures cannot be assured that their products will kill 100% of germs and pathogens on the hands, so they typically advertise their products by saying it has the ability to kill 99.9% of germs.http://biology.about.com/od/microbiology/a/handsanitizers.htm