Handle Hygiene is a smart device that automatically delivers a pulse of disinfectant to the door handle each time the door closes to grant effective disinfection each time the handle is re-contaminated by the last user.
Just a single doorknob results in the spread of viruses throughout office buildings, hotels, and health care facilities. Within 2 to 4 hours, the virus could be detected on 40 to 60 percent of workers and visitors in the facilities and could be isolated from commonly touched objects, according to research presented at the 54th Inter science Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), an infectious disease meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.
The invisible world of the restroom isn’t pretty. After scanning the microbial farm of four public restrooms, a team of researchers found a diverse swarm of organisms that persisted for months despite regular cleaning of the facilities