In presence of fragrant cleaning products, air purifiers that emit ozone can dirty the air
Indoor air purifiers that produce even small quantities of ozone may actually make the air dirtier when used at the same time as household cleaning products, scientists at UC Irvine have discovered. Ozone emitted by purifiers reacts in the air with unsaturated volatile organic compounds such as limonene ?a chemical added to cleaning supplies that gives them a lemon fragrance ?to create ad...Dirty snow may warm Arctic as much as greenhouse gases
Snow becomes dirty when soot from tailpipes, smoke stacks and forest fires enters the atmosphere and falls to the ground. Soot-infused sn...Sleep in' dirty – Unwashed duvets become a hotbed for mite
This might be a wake up call to get the duvets washed and clean. Research has found out that many Britons do not wash their duvets even in six months, and these could// be the most happening places for mites, filth and even dead skin. A survey conducted in many households revealed that two in five Britons confessed to sleeping on duvets unwashed for 6 months. The dust mites and filt...Eighty Children Die Of Aids Due To Tainted Blood, Dirty Needles In Southern Kazakhstan
The death toll of HIV-infected children in South Kazakhstan has reached 80 with the recent death //of a 5-year old boy in Sairam district – said the officials and non-governmental groups. It is believed that the five-year-old boy had a severe inborn cardiac defect, which caused the death. Chief physician of the regional HIV/ AIDS prevention and treatment center, Natalia Babina told the...‘Dirty’ and Dangerous Tools Put Full Stop to Operatin
A patient from Aberdeenshire, Scotland will have to go through ‘one of the most stressful things’ of his life, yet again//. Alan Paterson who was suffering from an acoustic neuroma - a form of brain tumour in the inner ear- was all prepped and connected to monitors, before the 18-hour-long brain surgery was to begin. It was then that doctors noticed three sets of non-steril...Crackdown on Dirty Hospitals in UK
That dirty hospitals are not a prerogative of the underdeveloped countries is old hat by now. There have been a barrage of reports highlighting hospital infection. Only a few days ago it was reported that a nurse blew up when a heart-attack patient in England complained he had been left lying in his own urine puddle for a few hours. But some time governments in the developed world...