ROBOTIC VAPORIZERS REDUCE HOSPITAL-BORNE INFECTIONS

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C40F2ACD-7BDE-40A6-83F0-715961E5C67C_w268_r1It’s a growing problem for hospitals around the world: strains of deadly, drug-resistant bacteria contaminating operating and recovery rooms.  To combat this serious threat to patient health, two dozen U.S. hospitals are now using robotic, hydrogen-peroxide vaporizers to sanitize rooms where infected patients have stayed.  A new study finds that use of the vaporizers’ germ-killing mist has significantly lowered the number of hospital-borne infections.

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