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Invest in Anti-disease systems that will irradicate viruses and germs from all Buildings as part of our National Health Care

 Invest research in building an Anti-disease erradication system that will have the ability kill any virus or germ in order to prevent it's spread to the population.
This would be a great addition to our National Health Care system. Less sick people, means less need to go see the doctor.
3 Comments  »  Posted by JimBO to Economy, Energy and Environment, Health Care, Technology, Additional Issues on 1/13/2009 1:36 AM

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HilaryLVH
1/13/2009 2:46 AM
 That would cause a pandemic of resistant strains of viruses and germs. We would all die.
 
JimBO
1/13/2009 3:37 AM

Who told you that?  A drug company?

 
JimBO
1/13/2009 3:44 AM
How Light can Kill Viruses
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It may then surprise you to learn that something viruses are exposed to all the time -- visible light -- can be used to kill them.

A study by Kong-Thon Tsen of Arizona State University along with researchers at Johns Hopkins University shows how strong blasts of visible light from a low-power laser can kill viruses. The laser technique appears to be more successful than other methods at killing viruses, while also posing less harm to healthy tissue.

In their study, the researchers blasted a virus with a quick pulse of purple laser light. The laser, which only shines for 100 femtoseconds (a femtosecond is one millionth of a billionth of a second), causes the virus's capsid (its outer shell) to vibrate and become damaged. Essentially, the virus becomes "deactivated" while the area around the virus remains unharmed. The treatment doesn't cause viruses to mutate either, which is a problem in other virus treatments and can lead to viral resistance.

While the treatment is still in testing, it presents an array of potential applications. Serious diseases like HIV/AIDS and hepatitis could be blasted with laser light. Scientists could cleanse blood samples of viruses and other pathogens, making them safer to handle. Scientists could also combine the laser therapy with current blood dialysis treatments. In that case, blood would be cycled out of a patient's body, lasers could eliminate any pathogens in the blood and the blood would be cycled back in.

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http://health.howstuffworks.com/light-virus.htm

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