Can Taiwan teach China environmental lessons?
• Bird deaths key to unveiling lead contamination 1. Nanotech silver stops microbes Author: Destefani, Jim Source: PF Products Finishing, September 2007, pp18-21 Abstract: Hospital-related infections are a serious problem. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that 2 million hospital patients a year acquire such infections. Approximately 100,000 of those afflicted die, making hospital-related infections the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States. In addition to the personal toll there’s an economic price to be paid as well. Hospital-related infections cost an average of $57,000 per patient to treat. The added cost to hospitals, patients and insurance carriers for extended care and treatment is $28—30 billion annually. About half of hospital-related infections are associated with catheters and other medical devices that provide a support surface for organisms to move into deeper tissue. Medical science has discovered that such infections are caused by form
