They are not visible. They can’t be felt. Once they attack, you can’t stop them. They’re always there. “natural-born killers”In their tens and trillions. There is a deadly strike force, antibiotic-resistant supergerms, lurking in America’s under-resourced and over-burdened hospital system. They are silently waiting to infect everyone who comes in contact with them.
How serious is it? superbug threatWhat is the answer? Superbugs (also known as hospital-acquired infection (HAIs) in the U.S. now affect one in twenty patients and kill more than 100,000 people annually — more than AIDS, breast Cancer, and car accidents. Surprisingly, these infections often occur after admission.
Ironically, HAIs are preventable if hospital staff and doctors follow strict disinfection guidelines. The lack of widespread compliance suggests that lawsuits may soon be insignificant.
The fourth-leading cause of death in America is infection contracted while in hospital. They cost an estimated $33Billion annually in hospital and health care expenses. This is a huge financial burden that overwhelmed hospitals can absorb.
According to industry pundits the need for better post-admittance infection prevention seems to be rapidly approaching crisis point. This poses some interesting questions. For example, what if there were an avian (bird flu) epidemic, a contagion-like disease, or large-scale bioterrorist attacks? Are we equipped with the necessary infrastructure and tools to deal? Could any of these factors threaten America’s hospital system? “to its knees?”
Their elimination may be possible.
The world is not aware of the work of a group of scientists and biomedical researchers who have been working in labs at Innovation Park, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario for three years to perfect and refine what could be the best weapon against HAIs.
This patent-pending new-generation device is “sterilization and disinfection”AsepticSure technology is the brainchild of Medizone International, Inc., a biotech company. Already the recipient of a World Health Organization-sponsored award for innovation and peer-reviewed by the prestigious American Journal of Infection Control, AsepticSure — an ozone vapor-based fumigant — has demonstrated unprecedented 100 percent kill rates against the world’s deadliest superbug strains. These include MRSA and C.difficile as well as E.coli and Pseudomonas.
“While there’s no denying that HAIs continue to flourish in hospitals and health care organizations across every state of America and throughout the world at this time, AsepticSure looks set to inflict the first real blow to a pandemic-in-the-making that, for decades, has largely gone unchecked,”Bruce Smeaton is the Medizone spokesperson.
Will hospitals and health care providers adopt AsepticSure as a humanitarian technology instead of pursuing moral high ground? Will they accept the economics that six dollars can be saved for every dollar spent on such technology? Or will they still believe in hospital infections as a way to protect themselves from liability and continue to be misguided?
It could be down to their commitment to eradicating the superbug crisis or how willing and able they are face to face what is poised to become the next asbestos’.
For more information about AsepticSure visit www.medizoneint.com
