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Published on: November 10, 2023
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With regular flu outbreaks a significant concern and cost/resource drain for the NHS, Vapac Humidity Control, reportedly the UK's only manufacturer of specialist humidifier equipment for hospital use, is highlighting a recently published US study which it says backs over 60 years' evidence that carefully controlling humidity in operating theatres and wards could significantly reduce transmission and survival of both the influenza virus, and potentially also other infection and virus-causing organisms. Jonathan Baillie reports.
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