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Construction Site:A Breeding Ground For Germs Just in the past three years, scientists have discovered that dust is a very effective transporter of airborne bacteria. Many hospital deaths are attributed every year to dust-borne diseases such as Aspergillus. It's not that the dust itself is dirty - just that the particles give a free ride to bacteria looking for weak and vulnerable hosts. Recent discoveries linking patient deaths directly to contamination from construction dust have heightened national awareness about this problem. So the engineering community is now being asked to help hospitals take precautions to stop the spread of construction particles in healthcare facilities, primarily with sophisticated pressurization techniques. Aspergillus: A real dangerAspergillus a mold that is common in the natural environment. But it causes an invasive disease in hospital patients called Aspergillosis, which looks and behaves much like tuberculosis. It can infect the sinus, ear, lung, central nervous system, prosthetic cardiac valves, gastrointestinal tract, bone and skin. Symptoms include fever, cough, and sputum with blood and flecks of white or brown fungus material. According to the latest research conducted at Northwest Memorial Hospital in Chicago, as many as 30 percent of all fatal infections among patients with acute leukemia and lymphoma are believed to be caused by the fungi. Because dry wood, usually used as a dry material, contains more than 20% of moisture, it can naturally cause mildew or other contaminating germs to live in it, such as the Aspergillus mold. Imagine touching this or one of the many other thousands of germs and contaminants overturned at a constructions site; not to mention the portable toilets, and then the roach coach arrives...
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