Microbe Terminator! Meet The Robot That Kills Ebola
“Exterminate! Exteeeerminaaaate!”
A 5-foot-5 superbug-slaying robot is being featured at IDWeek 2014 in Philadelphia from October 8 to 12, 2014. IDWeek is a combined meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the HIV Medicine Association and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.
This futuristic-looking machine, known as TRU-D SmartUVC, emanates UVC light at a particular frequency known to kill Ebola particles. … UVC light works to eliminate Ebola and other deadly pathogens, including methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Enterovirus D68, by scrambling DNA of these organisms and thereby compromising their ability to reproduce and spread.
Click here for reuse options!Two of these robots were dispatched to the Republic of Liberia, to help in the fight against Ebola, as the outbreak continues to grow at an exponential rate. Medical professionals treating Ebola patients are facing high risk exposure, not only from diseased individuals, but also from contaminated surroundings. According to the CDC data, under ideal conditions, the Ebola virus can survive on surfaces and may remain active for up to 6 days. In real world conditions, live, infectious virus may persist outside of the human body for about 24 hours. A World Health Organization (WHO) official has warned that more Ebola cases can be expected among medical staff, including developed countries with modern health care systems.
Third-party studies have shown TRU-D to be more than 99 percent effective in combatting deadly pathogens, while traditional disinfection methods are only 50 percent effective. After a hospital room is cleaned using traditional methods, TRU-D is brought in and activated, to guarantee a pathogen-free environment for patients and health care staff. It is equipped with Sensor360, which automatically calculates the time needed to react to the room’s size, geometry, surface reflectivity and equipment. The virus-killing robot delivers a lethal UV-C dose in both line-of-site and shadowed spaces.
Copyright 2014 Liberaland
By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
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tiredoftea October 11th, 2014 at 17:34
“Third-party studies have shown TRU-D to be more than 99 percent effective in combatting deadly pathogens”, leaving behind a small fraction of living Ebola which can reproduce into a mutant form of super Ebola. Which is how we got MRSA viruses to begin with! Yo, Science, Bitches!
mea_mark October 11th, 2014 at 18:05
If all cracks and crevices are bleached it should be 100% effective. Ultra violet light from the sun is natures way of sterilizing viruses and this should mimic that effectively. It is the dark places that need to be addressed, that is where the mutations have a chance of occurring. Rooms with glass roofs that let in sunlight would probably be the best place to treat patients to minimize the spread of the virus.
tiredoftea October 11th, 2014 at 18:10
That’s a big “should be” that does not happen in real life, which is how we get super bugs. There is no 100% effective. Viruses find a way to live and infect another day. With our help, we are creating the vector for our own end!
mea_mark October 11th, 2014 at 18:42
I think most mutations occur in the host or an optimum environment. Outside the body it should be easy to sterilize everything. For some more info see parts 4 and 5 of this http://www.askscientific.com/ebola-virus-life-cycle-and-pathogenicity-in-humans/ It is the mutations that occur in the body that develop resistance to the medicines we are using that is the most worrisome or the ability for the virus to go airborne.
edmeyer_able October 11th, 2014 at 18:09
But will it if the virus dies on its own after 24 hours on a dry surface this shouldn’t happen should it?
tiredoftea October 11th, 2014 at 18:13
Yes, except that there’s always the chance that someone/something will come along to be infected before the virus expires. It’s accelerated evolution over billions and billions of chances for mutation. A few survive and reproduce and find a host. Then we die and nature selects another winner.
tiredoftea October 11th, 2014 at 17:34
“Third-party studies have shown TRU-D to be more than 99 percent effective in combatting deadly pathogens”, leaving behind a small fraction of living Ebola which can reproduce into a mutant form of super Ebola. Which is how we got MRSA viruses to begin with! Yo, Science, Bitches!
mea_mark October 11th, 2014 at 18:05
If all cracks and crevices are bleached it should be 100% effective. Ultra violet light from the sun is natures way of sterilizing viruses and this should mimic that effectively. It is the dark places that need to be addressed, that is where the mutations have a chance of occurring. Rooms with glass roofs that let in sunlight would probably be the best place to treat patients to minimize the spread of the virus.
tiredoftea October 11th, 2014 at 18:10
That’s a big “should be” that does not happen in real life, which is how we get super bugs. There is no 100% effective. Viruses find a way to live and infect another day. With our help, we are creating the vector for our own end!
mea_mark October 11th, 2014 at 18:42
I think most mutations occur in the host or an optimum environment. Outside the body it should be easy to sterilize everything. For some more info see parts 3 and 4 of this http://www.askscientific.com/ebola-virus-life-cycle-and-pathogenicity-in-humans/ It is the mutations that occur in the body that develop resistance to the medicines we are using that is the most worrisome or the ability for the virus to go airborne.
edmeyer_able October 11th, 2014 at 18:09
But will it if the virus dies on its own after 24 hours on a dry surface this shouldn’t happen should it?
tiredoftea October 11th, 2014 at 18:13
Yes, except that there’s always the chance that someone/something will come along to be infected before the virus expires. It’s accelerated evolution over billions and billions of chances for mutation. A few survive and reproduce and find a host. Then we die and nature selects another winner.