Do you wash your hands every time you go to the toilet? Do your colleagues? When we take swabs from cleaned surfaces, the main thing that shows up in almost every case is coliforms. These come from the gut and…
More than 200 patients in England have been infected or contaminated with a drug-resistant fungus first found in Japan, health officials have confirmed. Hospitals are on the lookout for further cases and are putting in place measures to help control…
Last year, doctors in the United States were unable to treat a patient infected with a bacterial strain that was resistant to 26 different antibiotics. After subjecting the bacteria to multiple tests, the doctors found it to be “resistant to all available…
Up to 1 in 8 computer keyboards could be regarded a “health hazard”. They are often a reflection of what’s in your nose and gut. When was your keyboard last sanitised? Microshield coat all surfaces in an invisible protective shield…
“If antibiotics lose their effectiveness, key medical procedures – including organ transplantation, Caesarean sections, joint replacements and chemotherapy – could become too dangerous to perform”. Microshield’s specialist disinfection service creates cleaner, healthier environments and helps prevent the…
Mirror (Nathan Bevan) 27th Sept 2017: As First Word problems go, worrying about how often you should wash your yoga mat is pretty much up there. So if there’s one thing more likely to put you off your chi…
Enclosed environments where people are working or interacting in close proximity with one another are at higher risk of the spread of germs. With people often working or moving around public areas while ill, this can quickly lead to localized…
Is staff sickness a problem in your workplace? How much does absence cost your business? Sickness doesn’t just cost money. There’s the reduction in productivity and staff morale to consider too. If you could keep your team healthier and save…
Whilst hydrogen peroxide is highly effective in killing bacteria, recontamination of a treated space starts almost immediately plus there’s a 30 – 90 minute waiting time after treatment before a space is safe to use. Microshield are now using a…
Friday fun fact: Whipping their tails, E.coli can travel 25 times their own length in 1 second, equivalent to a horse running 135 miles per hour.
