He said in addition to hand washing, other useful strategies would be screening patients for MRSA on admission, regular use of hydrogen peroxide vapour generators to kill bugs in the hospital environment and educating patients and visitors on ways they can reduce risk.
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The team of researchers have tested on rats a device that heats a wound to kill off bugs.
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Children's toys can also serve as home to dust mites, so if they're not machine-washable, put them in bags in the freezer for five hours at a time to kill the invisible bugs.
In the past year its popular service DellConnect has handled 9 million sessions in which technicians remotely access customers' machines to fix bugs, kill viruses or make updates.
For decades plant biologists have used brute-force methods of genetic engineering to produce biotech seeds that kill bugs and withstand herbicides.
Manufacturers report, for instance, that annual sales of tableware dryers, which heat cutlery and the like to temperatures sufficient to kill all but the hardiest of bugs, are running at about 360, 000 units.
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Hospital bugs like MRSA are easy to kill when they're outside your body, just as long as you've got some alcohol nearby.
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The problem is, to avoid food poisoning, you must cook your burger or chicken to a high enough temperature to kill E. coli and other gut-wrenching bugs.
So unlike the traditional bed nets that were on the market--polyester-based and would fall apart after three or four months, had to be dipped--this would enable people to buy a bed net that would last for five years, never have to dip it in insecticide and would actually kill the bugs on contact.
Some traps attract the bugs but don't kill them, agitating them to spray wafts of their stinky scent, he says.
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