Hospitals To Test Copper Surfaces In Germ Fight
Memorial Sloan-Kettering, the Medical University of South Carolina, and the Charleston Veterans Affairs Medical Center will be replacing some stainless surfaces in the intensive care units with copper surfaces to determine how long disease-causing bacteria can survive.
The lead researcher is Dr. Kent Sepkowitz at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.
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