Swine Flu Fears Generate Interest In UV Disinfection Technologies … Again

UV germicidal lamps have been used to control outbreaks of measles, mumps, flu and other airborne respiratory illnesses in schools and hospitals since the 1930’s. UVGI (Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation) systems successfully reduced infections in Mexican schools during a 1955 Mumps epidemic and helped eliminate a Varicella (Chicken pox) epidemic in New York that same year.

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Filed under: Flu / SARS on May 8th, 2009