New to the commercial industry, Radiant Catalytic Ionization (RCI) kills these infections before they can infect an unsuspecting population which is far better than treating them afterwards
E Coli and Norovirus can shut down a school in a day infecting over 75% of the students and staff.
MRSA is a killer now responsible for killing a health care worker in a hospital.
C Difficile also kills indiscriminately morphing from a relatively harmless infection to a deadly one killing more than a dozen in a single hospital.
These statements are based on recent headlines.
Nosocomial infections cause chaos when they invade an environment because they are easily spread by contact and transfer and remain viable on surfaces for days.
And here is where we miss the point.
These are not random individual occurrences but environmental ones.
Treating the indoor environment will mitigate the need for treating people within that environment.
Transmission of these and other viruses are community associated or environmentally so.
As we spend over 90% of our time indoors it only makes sense to make those indoor environments safe and germ free.
Wherever a diverse society congregates there will be the spread of contagions.
Places such as the mall, grocery store, mass transit or even the bank, places we go everyday.
We spend money to identify and treat them and blame poor hand washing or custodians for not doing a good enough job when there is an outbreak.
The truth of the matter is that the best practices are not good enough when fighting bacteria, but no one will admit it.
Doing the best we can is not good enough when the death rates increase annually despite shorter hospital stays and advanced building designs.
In 2005, 103,000 people died from hospital borne infections according to the CDC.
We attack these infections with carcinogenic chemicals and advanced Hvac design.
The reality is when these infections invade a facility they are very difficult to eradicate.
It would be necessary to sanitise the environment continuously in a manner that will clean the air and surfaces as well.
Technology is currently available that will do precisely that.
New to the commercial industry, Radiant Catalytic Ionization (RCI) kills these infections before they can infect an unsuspecting population which is far better than treating them afterwards.
This technology creates a purifying plasma that permeates an environment killing bacteria on contact utilizing the Hvac system as a delivery system.
It is so effective that it will kill the germs in a sneeze or a cough before the droplets hit the ground.
It is proven to destroy MRSA, Candida, E Coli, C Difficile and many others.
It has been utilised by China to stop Sars cold, Disney to eliminate Norovirus on the cruise ships and hotels and the Pentagon to clear the air after 9/11.
Exchanging air has not done it, hand washing has not done it and cleaning chemicals have not solved the problem either.
These things ought to be done but they lack in the effectiveness desired.
Where exchanging air is not a code requirement RCI saves much more than its cost in energy savings.
This technology is available worldwide and will meet any electrical requirements.
