JOIN USAn air management system developed by NASA scientists to increase the shelf life of food for astronauts could become an effective tool to prevent swine influenza also.
The technology called AiroCide, an effective indoor environment manager, has shown to reduce infection load in hospitals drastically.
It is now available in India also, Great White Technology, the Indian company which has bought the rights, said.
The technology uses a process called 'Enconditioning' (environment conditioning) developed by NASA years back when they were mandated with creating an Air Management System which has the capability of annihilating almost every kind of known virus, micro-organism or pathogens so that they could lengthen the life of plants and produce, company’s managing director Dharmesh Keshwani told PTI.
Anthrax too
Deadly gases like Anthrax too cannot escape its preventive prowess and now, as has been discovered, neither can the Swine Flu Virus, he said.
He said it is easily installed like a plasma television and the air from the room is sucked through the fan and passes through a reaction chamber which holds the patented technology.
The device comes in various sizes depending upon the application and air covered, Keshwani said. The devices can manage 3000 cubic feet of air to 20,000 cu.ft of air. A device handling 5000 cu ft air will cost around Rs one lakh.
It annihilates completely any micro-organism irrespective of their size and our partners in US have already dispatched these devices to Mexico where the outbreak of swine flu first noted, Mr Keshwani said.