Posted on 04/12/2020 3:13:09 AM PDT by tired&retired
Study shows copper surfaces rapidly kill human coronavirus
Surfaces made of copper and copper alloys can inactivate a human coronavirus within minutes—as opposed to days for other surfaces—showing potential to combat MERS-CoV and other respiratory viruses, University of Southampton researchers reported today in mBio.
The team studied 229E, a human coronavirus closely related to MERS and SARS viruses that can cause disease ranging from the common cold to pneumonia. The virus remained infectious for at least 5 days on a range of common surfaces, such as stainless steel, Teflon, PVC, ceramic, glass, and silicone.
On a range of copper alloys, however, 229E was inactivated within a few minutes for a dose that simulated fingertip contamination. "Exposure to copper destroyed the viral genomes and irreversibly affected virus morphology, including disintegration of envelope and dispersal of surface spikes," the author wrote.
So I’m going to copperize my house? And I do that how?
Metal surfaces in general have this property.
Zinc seems like a logical choice.
Oh great, copper infused face masks ftw. /s
ping
Copper has always been a good disenfectant.
*price of copper skyrockets*
“scrapping” in urban areas booms
It would certainly explain God’s instructions as to why copper was so generously used within the Holy of Holies. Purity.
Also the brass serpent that Moses raised up in the desert.
I am standing in front of good samaritan hospital in San Jose
Where the h*** are the lines of sick and dying people?
Should have already done that to shield against EMP.
Copper has been found to have anti-microbial and anti-viral properties. It is why Roman soldiers would put a coin (made of copper) on their sword wounds....it reduced the chance for infection.
Our elimination of brass door knobs and plates was due to cost, but increased the ability for bacteria and viruses to live longer on such surfaces.
Poor cleaning of stainless surfaces in hospitals is directly related to the spread of Mersa Virus in patients.
Mersa can live on stainless surfaces for 6 hours. Stainless infused with 10% copper ensures Mersa cannot survive more than half an hour. That was a study done years ago.
How about aluminum foil?
I need to get the mail every day. I handle it with paper towels and let it sit until next day. Then I open yesterday’s mail.
Would Aluminum foil be better than paper towels?
galvanized pipe (steel pipe with a Zinc Coating)
The old dairy farmer trick when the milk cooling compressor quit was to through silver dollars in the milk tank as the silver kept the somatic cell count down.
Many diary farmers use colloidal silver as a first line defense against mastitis.
There is a copper toxicity depression that effects women with hormonal imbalances.
IIRC, there was a story a century or two ago about how a doctor noticed that coppersmiths in Paris were miraculously spared some widespread pathogen that had infected essentially everyone in their neighborhood except them.
Brass is a metal alloy that is always made with a combination of copper and zinc.
Fresh metallic surfaces by virtue of their loosely held conduction electrons are incommpatible with delicate macromolecular and biological systems. Aluminum quickly forms an oxide layer that probably masks the effect. If you handle mail, the easiest, most convenient, and practical way to handle it is with a good spraying down with Lysol and wait ten minutes, provided you don’t mind your mail smelling like an industrial chemist’s idea of the air after a fresh spring rain.
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