Copper, silver tested as germ wards
(AP)
Monday, 12.31.2007, 07:22pm
AP - Out with stainless steel, in with copper? It might be a new hospital trendnot for looks, but for germ-fighting. Some intensive-care units in New York and South Carolina are about to get copper fittings as part of a project to test if drug-resistant bacteria survive better on hospitals'ubiquitous stainless steel than on copper.
|