SafeAir UV Air Purifiers – UVGI
30 August 2021
Am I at risk of contracting an airborne disease?
This is the question that most of us are or should be asking ourselves… and rightly so!
How do we justify the detrimental effect lockdown in SA had on business, education, our families and the country economy as a whole, since 23 March 2020, all to curb the Coronavirus Pandemic.
We should ask ourselves how can we proactively prevent this from happening in the future and what can we implement into our communal spaces to kill airborne diseases?
COVID 19 received a tremendous amount of attention, because of the rate at which it spread and the fact that people were dying, however, over a similar period, (2019 & 2020) according to tbfacts.org statistics and a simple calculation, you will find on average, more people died of TB in a two year period, than COVID 19 from 2020 to date.
COVID 19 vs Tuberculosis (TB)
Reports show that 102 000 people died of COVID 19 related deaths in South Africa over the 27-month period to date, which, if averaged out, works out to less than 46 000 deaths per year, notwithstanding the COVID 19 Pandemic is now controlled and all but over, so the death rate has been declining and will be negligible from here on… But in contrast, have the media advertised how many people died of TB over that same period, WHY NOT? Are TB deaths not as serious as COVID deaths?
Perhaps because people do not want to acknowledge this in South Africa, it was estimated that 58 000 TB deaths occurred in 2019 and 61 000 deaths in 2020, which added together is 119 000 deaths in 24 months, which is more drastic than the 102 000 COVID 19 deaths in a 27 month period, also – “WHO modelling projections suggest the number of people developing TB and dying from the disease could be much higher in 2021 and 2022” – what a scary thought!
It is also strange that WHO statistics for TB deaths over 2021 and 2022 are not easily found, if at all.
South Africa also faces the challenge of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), like elsewhere in the world, “It is estimated that 14,000 people became ill with MDR/RR-TB in 2019”, in SA…This is no joke, there is little if any cure and government hospitals are sending people home to fend for themselves and possibly to die, as financially they can’t help them, but in doing so, they are spreading this deadly disease.
Over and above epidemic outbreaks, we must not underestimate the power of the common flu, which is also an airborne disease.
“In South Africa, a middle‐income country of 54.8 million people in 2015, over 10 million mild, 128,000 severe‐non‐fatal and 11,000 fatal influenza‐associated illness episodes are estimated to occur annually ” (The Daily Maverick, 2020). (hyperlink: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-02-07-the-familiar-old-virus-that-kills-thousands-of-south-africans/)
Airborne disease is spread by means of coughing, sneezing, talking and even laughing. We all know how important it is to wash our hands and surfaces regularly with soap and detergent, but what about the air?
Airborne germs get breathed in from the air and this is the easiest way for them to enter your lungs and take hold.
Airborne Disease – Do You Have SafeAir To Breathe?
This should be the first question you ask yourself.
That is where SafeAir UV Air Purifiers come in. Our UV Air Purifiers were tested by National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) against the dreaded tuberculosis (TB) bacteria and achieved a 6 log reduction of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) within 60 minutes.
For those of us not in the know, this means that it reduced the number of TB bacteria in the controlled environment by 99.9999% within an hour!
The SafeAir UV Air Purifiers, unlike the old UV upper room technology, have high powered lamps, fans and a specially sized ionizer, incorporated into the enclosed unit. This will create a “Pool Gobbler” type of effect, drawing all airborne pathogens into the unit and killing them by exposing them to the high powered UVC radiation.
There is no chance of UV exposure or Ozone contamination, so people can work in all communal places with the SafeAir units operating and no adverse affect on them whatsoever, this is one of the most proactive ways to prevent the spreading of airborne disease.
line shows the decay of MTB concentration when the device was operational.
If this is what SafeAir UV Air Purifiers do to TB Bacteria; Colds, influenza, SARS CoV germs, etc., are not going to survive a trip through a SafeAir air purifier!
Why Choose SafeAir?
Flu, Colds and Virus season has arrived at our shores, have you got prevention in place at home, school and at the office?
SafeAir Air Purifiers are designed to kill indoor airborne diseases that are so easily transmitted from an infected person to other people in the vicinity.
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