Scent machines used in war against hospital superbug

April 23, 2007

Originally designed to mask unpleasant odors on hospital wards, scent machines in a U.K. hospital are also being tested for their ability to prevent infection. The machine disperses a special recipe of particular essential oils that attack MRSA, a hospital-borne superbug that kills up to 5,000 U.K. hospital patients each year and countless others throughout the world. In a 9-month trial of one essential oil-dispersing machine on a ward, infection on the ward was significantly reduced and airborne bacterial counts were reduced by 90%. To read more about the study, see BBC.

Entry Filed under: News. Tags: Aerobiology, Health, Hospitals, Trends.

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1. Ambient scenting systems put to work in UK hospitals « Air Sense News | April 23, 2008 at 9:21 pm

[...] Coincidentally, this is exactly one year after an Air Sense post about the initial UK trials (see Scent machines used in war against hospital superbug). [...]
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