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Silver Versus Ebola: A Medical Revolution?
For centuries, humanity has utilized “colloidal silver” to treat disease and infection, and to prevent disease and infection. Colloidal silver is (primarily) an internal medical treatment, created by immersing particles of silver in a colloidal solution.
Before the invention of antibacterial soap, colloidal silver was used as a disinfectant. It is still commonly used to kill bacteria…In ancient times silver was used in wound dressings and it was frequently used for the same purposes in America following the Civil War. It is also why churches use silver chalices in Communion to stop disease spreading through the congregation…
Even thousands of years ago, Ancient Greeks realized that the rich families who ate, drank, and stored food in silverware were much less likely to be ill than the commoners who ate from ceramics and used iron utensils. The rich people developed a slight blue tinge to their skin from years of silver ingestion, hence the term Blue Bloods was born…
With its popularity once again rising in our own societies (along with other herbal and natural tonics and remedies), not surprisingly we see “push-back” from the non-natural, chemical-pushing, pharmaceutical industry. While anti-microbial silver coatings and silver fabrics are spreading through our societies in a multitude of commercial applications – because of silver’s proven, superior anti-microbial properties – this is what we hear from the charlatans of mainstream medicine, in this case the Mayo Clinic:
Colloidal silver isn’t considered safe or effective for any of the health claims manufacturers make. Silver has no known purpose in the body. [emphasis mine]
Note the devious nature of this smear. The Mayo Clinic itself undoubtedly uses silver-coated/silver-laced materials and/or equipment in its own facilities to utilize silver’s known properties to externally fight infection in general, and the “super-bugs” which are becoming an increasing health-care menace (in particular).
…at the 40th annual Association of Professionals for Infection Control conference in Florida earlier this month. NMI Health exhibited its suite of SilverCare Plus performance fabrics including scrub and lab coat material, patient gowns, linens, blankets, and cubicle curtains. Collectively these products account for over 90 percent of soft surfaces found in the patient environment.
However, if the Mayo Clinic charlatans (and the rest of the mainstream medicine frauds) truly wish to insist that colloidal silver “isn’t considered safe” and “has no known purpose in the body”; then why are catheters (a piece of medical equipment inserted into the body) now being coated with silver?
Furthermore, medical science fully understands exactly how and why silver is so effective in killing a wide range of microbial organisms, thus combating disease and infection:
Scientific studies have shown that pure silver quickly kills bacteria. It even kills the super-bacteria that evolve after conventional disinfecting agents kill the weak strains of bacteria. Silver acts as a catalyst and disables an enzyme that facilitates actions inside cells. It is not consumed in this process so it is available to keep working again and again. The enzyme silver destroys is required by anaerobic bacteria, viruses yeast, and molds. (Unfriendly bacteria tend to be anaerobic and friendly bacteria aerobic.) This is the action that destroys pathogens. It stops them from using the body’s own cells as vehicles for replication. Colloidal silver creates an environment that makes it impossible for pathogens to survive and multiply.
Since it is not designed to combat a specific pathogen but rather works against the very nature of their life cycles, it is an effective preventative agent against all illnesses caused by all pathogens including future mutations. There is no known disease-causing organism that can live in the presence of even minute traces of colloidal silver. [emphasis mine]
Here we see the essence of the pharmaceutical industry’s hatred of silver-based medical applications, in general, and colloidal silver in particular. The antibiotics with which the pharmaceutical industry has saturated our societies are only effective against certain types of bacteria.
Worse, because they cause resistance to develop within these bacteria, it is commonly known that antibiotics are the creators of the new/dreaded “super-bugs” – requiring yet more new drugs to battle them. Meanwhile, not only is it impossible for silver to produce any “resistance” to its own properties in bacteria or other micro-organisms (and thus create more deadly mutations), it kills the Super Bugs against which the pharmaceutical industry is increasingly ineffective.
These ultra-greedy, drug-pushers want to design (and sell) a different chemical for each/every pathogen in existence – and preferably several. But silver is effective against all of them, permanently. Furthermore, because it is a relatively natural/organic treatment, these drug-manufacturers can be bypassed completely.
They can’t make any money from colloidal silver themselves. Worse still, it eats into their ill-gotten gains by replacing the use of their own (often toxic) chemicals. And so, yet again, Big Pharma condemns what it cannot (mis)appropriate for itself.
It is with this context in mind that we can consider the recent news (hushed-up by the mainstream media) that “nano silver” (i.e. colloidal silver) is now the officially recognized treatment for the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, one of the African nations hit hardest by this killer-disease. This is despite efforts by the WHO to prevent Sierra Leone’s victims from getting access to colloidal silver.
The Hon. Alpha Kanu, Minister of Information, Republic of Sierra Leone (October 11th, 2014), in touting the impressive results of colloidal silver against Ebola:
“There is no illness that doesn’t have a cure. If you say that this illness does not get better then that’s a lie because 500 people have gotten better.”
Much has been written (in the Alternative Media) speculating on whether the African “Ebola epidemic” is truly as bad as depicted, or whether this has been exaggerated (by the mainstream media) in order to spread fear in our own populations. This skepticism has been further reinforced by the suspicious manner (to the point of absurdity) in which Ebola has ‘leaked’ (been allowed to leak?) into the United States.
However, irrespective of whether the “Ebola epidemic” is (even partially) a hoax, or whether this outbreak is every bit as serious and menacing as it has been depicted by the mainstream media; if colloidal silver is now proven/demonstrated as the cure/treatment for the Ebola virus, its use and popularity will spread – like the virus itself.
Beyond the present; if colloidal silver becomes known (by the people) as a safe/reliable means to combat the most-dreaded killer-disease in the world today, it will automatically become the first remedy people reach for in any future epidemic (or hoax).
As we become increasingly aware of the perils of the pharmaceutical industry’s “vaccines” – medical treatments which our laws do not require the pharmaceutical industry to thoroughly/properly test – the expression of “the cure being worse than the disease” is evolving from a mere colloquialism to a real, medical danger. For those amongst the world’s population of 7+ billion who refuse to be “lab rats” for the pharmaceutical industry’s semi-tested vaccines; colloidal silver represents nothing short of a potential “medical revolution”.
While Big Pharma trots-out new vaccines on a nearly monthly basis, each time insisting that this isn’t a treatment which we should use, but a treatment which we must use; now people will realize they do have a choice.
We can continue to be pin-cushions for the pharmaceutical industry, allowing them to inject us with vaccine after vaccine – until one of their semi-tested “cures” kills us. Or, we can rely upon a single (relatively inexpensive) remedy/treatment which (unlike their vaccines) has been used by humanity for centuries.
Even before the current Ebola outbreak; previous commentaries have strongly suggested that silver-based anti-microbial products would continue to sweep through our societies (and consumer shelves). Now, as humanity is warned of a potential “new plague” which menaces us; the motivation for this silver-based Medical Revolution just got much, much greater.
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Silver and gold:
https://www.rheumatology.org/Practice/Clinical/Patients/Medications/Gold...(Myochrysine,_Ridaura,_Solganol)/
Silver Boosts Effect Of Antibioticshttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/262290.php
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Having been in the fire service, I can attest to the efficacy of Silver Sulfadiazine...
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a682598.html
We use it and it works remarkebly well. Along with many herbs and mushrooms, and our home-grown biodynamically-grown food, colodial silver is always considered in the rare times we're dealing with an illness. A three-day turn around on a case of shingles was the most remarkable I can recall.
Excellent article – As you say, “our laws do not require the pharmaceutical industry to thoroughly/properly test [vaccines]” is little recognized by the naive public. In fact few realize that there has never been a comparison between vaccinated and unvaccinated groups to show a benefit by vaccinating.
The closest comparison was with 22,000 unvaccinated Amish that had two Autism cases that actually later showed these two were vaccinated. In the general population, Autism is striking down nearly one in 55 MMR vaccinated children and MMR vaccinated black male children have a 340% greater risk of autism.
Naturalnews.com has been running articles on a former CDC senior scientist turned whistleblower who describes a cover up of the link between the MMR vaccine and Autism.
http://www.naturalnews.com/046630_CDC_whistleblower_public_confession_Dr_William_Thompson.html
The Poisoning Agenda of our hidden rulers
It’s not surprising that the establishment is suppressing a colloid silver cure for Ebola and any other disease caused by harmful micro-organisms. Our EU Organized Crime hidden rulers understand how to capture and induce a blind loyalty to the Establishment.
They have added poisons to the food, water and medicine in order to induce anxiety and fear that stampedes the toxically injured into the perceived safe harbor of the Establishment.
Toxic Injury through GMOs, vaccines, HFCS and poison-based farming are among a long list of hazards. Our hidden rulers are protecting the Big Money that is the secret Fed banking scams and not just industry profits from pesticides or chemotherapy.
To protect the far more lucrative Fed banking scams requires that the entire population be chemically dumbed-down to disable all threats to the Fed counterfeiting and embezzlement racket.
The capturing and disabling process of the public starts within hours of birth, while an infant is desperate to develop a strong immune system, with a toxic Hepatitis vaccine loaded with mercury, aluminum, MSG neurotoxin and formaldehyde embalming fluid.
And that’s before we discuss the infectious agent that starts a virtual brush fire in the brain for life. See neurosurgeon Dr Russell Blaylock’s expose of the known hazards of vaccines that the CDC has suppressed for over 80 years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB3xcN_eoPo
To vaccinate infants for a skid row bums disease acquired from dirty needles should tip off intelligent people that something is amiss.
Just like the adding of cupric sulfate pesticide into infant formula or the adding of mercury to vaccines that are 25000 times EPA acceptable levels in drinking water.
The sheeple have no clue that they are an extinct, poisoned species that was captured 100 years ago in the 1913 Fed Act by EU Organized Crime and their army of Jesuit, Masonic and Zionist agents using secrecy, fraud, bribery and death threats to attain their goals and disabling and capturing through Toxic Injury potential challengers to their domination.
Analysis of these commercially-available "colloidal silver" solutions, as well as the products made by home "colloidal silver generators" show the amount of silver contained in these preparations to be 90% IONIC, not colloidal, silver.
Perhaps the best way to get a nice, truly "colloidal" or nano-silver product would be to get a silver salt in solution, then actually chemically reduce the salt with plain old citric acid. At least that way you'd have the "real" stuff, and not be bullshitting yourself buying and using a bunch of ionic silver.
10ppm 5-7nm bitchez
inb4 MRSA & the end of antibiotics
Great promo for the resistance.
How about keeping a silver coin in your pocket and holding it periodically throughout the day. There's gotta be some germ-killing benefit there. Maybe not as good as hand-washing, but definitely nice to look at.
Man, this post sure brought out the trolls....
It boils down to this: If you don't believe in using silver as part of your health maintenance arsenal, DON'T USE IT. If you're not sure, do your own research and see if you want to give it a try. I've been using/making nano-silver for years and for me, it's a useful tool for fighting off cooties and staying healthy - and I haven't been sick in 8 years. Is it a magic bullet? Not at all - but it is useful and effective in some situations.
As far as all those "studies" that some people claimed have been done: I trust the "studies" done by mainstream organizations about as much as I trust the Federal Gubmint to do the right thing. Going against the PTB is a sure way to lose your funding, and academics are pretty much spineless in the face of losing their cushy research jobs. The same "experts" screeching about how silver is "useless" and "dangerous" and "all hype" are the same fucktards who told the world that poison like Vioxx was safe and effective ... and we all know how that turned out ....
FDA does'nt have guidelines for products with less than 1,000 Parts Per Million. Many store brands claim 250-500 ppm. Bullshit.
When you make your own colloidial (true colloid) the distilled water is essential, but using , say, food grade sodium hydroxide in a 1 molar solution and a reducer like cinnamon extract (make it with vodka, oooohh) you get the good nano-nano (could'nt resist) the good nano particles that get good results.
Just like most B Vitamins, they are destroyed in the stomache, so using good silver colloids and holding in the mouth for 30 seconds or more is very effective. If swallowing, be sure to use probiotics, as this will replenish in the intestines.
Took me two years to get the sysyem down an dnow its amost an art. You can do great things and help your friends.
I hav'nt been to a doctor in 35 years, a scientist I was working for said "oh, your naturally holistic!" to which I replied "what's that mean?"
$35K job, she paid me in gold and silver eagles. Lost it on the boat. BITCHEZ
By holding it in your mouth you get the sublingual which is most effective. Oh, and the guy that called a commenter a Q_U_A_C_K must have gone to college, and pays an enormous um to westerm medical/big pharma.
Probably has gold ETFs too.
It's very easy to determine the concentration with a ppm meter. impure water or vessel, or adding other ingredients, is the source of the argyria risk. colloidal/ionic is generally referring to particle size, not composition. larger particles will not pass through the stomach wall. particle size is more important than high ppm. distilled water and silver is all you want in your finished product. clear glass containers will facillitate the silver falling out of suspension. (short shelf life) I use old root beer bottles and corks. no refrigeration. store out of direct light. a nebulizer is a great investment, check thrift shops and garage sales.I'm not a chemist, but I am my own guniea pig.
No thanks Im sticking with Snake oil
Wow... that's reaching pretty low. With electronic solder quickly reducing the amount of silver required and photography and silverware using almost no silver at all anymore, I guess you have to grab for straws, if you are a pumper, eh?
The question is whether silver is safe for internal consumption.
Thanks for this, G-dub.
Sure silver is anti-microbial and it does work in paper, fabric, and as a coating on catheters.
But there is zero clinical evidence that colloidal or ionic silver, inhaled or ingested does anything to cure disease. And contrary to prior posts severe argyria has occurred with colloidal silver.
There is lots of anecdotal "evidence," and if you want to accept comments with zero proven evidence, then go for it. After all the placebo effect is a powerful one. Much of the anecdotal evidence leads back to those selling the product--doh!
To tout it as a cure for Ebola is simply shameful. Colloidal silver has never, ever been proven to cure any systemic disease. And to claim it somehow improves the body's immune system is childish--by what possible mechanism?
I challenge anyone to provide a peer-reviwed mainstream medical journal article that shows statistical evidence that inhaled/ingested colloidal silver does anything.
Stevious old boy you're not informed (so you might want to keep your opinions to yourself until you are). Silvadene ointment has been used for decades by mainstream medical practitioners for burn treatment, as much for its healing properties as for its ability to keep all infection out of third-degree burns. Silver nitrate has likewise been used for medical procedures in physicians' offices and hospitals since the late 19th century.
Being a MRSA survivor, I can testify my anecdote that colloidal silver spray was instrumental in killing the infection on three spots on my body. I and my family have used it, sparingly, for throat and sinus infections, usually (but not always) with better results than those achieved with antibiotics.
Big Pharma reacted to the wholistic health movement with diatribes and propaganda for years, refusing to acknowledge that 'herbs' had anything to do with medicine. A load of tripe, as most drugs were manufactured from plants and minerals long before synthetic compounds made it easier and more profitable. I am amused to see that every CVS and Walgreens out there now carries shelves and shelves of herbal supplements. It is already the same with Ag, which is incorporated into medical devices, fabrics, bandages and a host of products where bacterial death is required. The author's descriptions of its mechanisms for defeating infection are accurate. Your statement is not.
That's all topical ...
As if peer reeviewed research has helped society. More often, big pharma uses such research to hide behind pharma products that have more side effects than benefits.
But you cant patent a mineral, so why would anyone do such research.
The incentive system doesnt support such research, so why bother looking for it.
But if Sierra Leone govt telling us hundreds have bbeen cured doesnt help you, and you prefer to trust big pharma, thats your perrogative
Double post.
Fat finger.
Stevious: Re-read my post above RE: my mom-in-law's cancer treatment. I never said that CS could cure cancer. I said that when functioning optimally, your immune system can deal with mutated cells naturally, before they metastasize. Due to a lifetime of toxic buildup, the average first-worlder's immune system is working overtime just trying to keep your head above dirt. Get rid of the toxic buildup and your immune system will obviously work better.
QED
Whats shameful is to fear-monger the public for 2-3 weeks on a ebola scare while importing it at every opportunity only then to watch the entire contagion disinformation campaign evaporate faster than H1N1.
Colloidal silver cured me of MRSA, no doubt. A MRSA that just licked it's lips at a big bag IV of antibiotic and wanted to know what else they had. I was hours from being admitted with an abscessed leg and a nasty painful chronic dermal acne when first I discovered silver gel. I treated myself unconventionally out of desperation because the allapathes had nothing for me but days if not weeks of a PIC line and IV bag of antibiotic. (I watched my mother go through that, the source of my infection) And unconventional it was, the details of which only a proctologist could appreciate. Now the silver is used primarily for rare sinus or bronchial infections the kids drag in or cuts or stings.
Maybe your too young to remember when we went to the doc sick with sore throat and fever and got an antibiotic shot in the ass. You were better in 3-5 days. Then treatment evolved to two weeks of oral antibiotics and you were better in a 10 - 14 days. Now you get 5 days of antibiotics and a steroid pack to feel better after 2 or 3 weeks only for it to come right back on you as a lung infection, a sinus infection or both. Then go back for repeated treatments for a year or so, lucky you don't get pneumonia. And if you happen to quit your job as I did, your flagged with chronic sinusitis as a preexisting condition on your new insurance. I had pneumonia 3 years in a row (convinced now it was related to the MRSA) from January to May before I learned to use Silver out of desperation on the MRSA. I haven't had more that two bad colds in the 9 or 10 years since, neither lasted more than 8-10 days. Hows that for anecdotal evidence
What you want is scientific evidence and that is not coming as long as the FDA operates to the benefit of the industry it serves. A industry who owns the peers careers, the publications and the institutions doing the reviewing as well as the regulatory body... You take your prednisone dose pack and your cipro while waiting for the mainstream to catch up with people who have already re-learned better.
Do you know what the elephant walk is. Allapathic medical industry is linked up trunk to tale marching round and round in a circle, nobody breaks into the parade thanks to big pharma, nobody breaks out of the parade thanks to big insurance.
No doubt it works on catheters and wounds. I've used it in those settings for over 30 years. I question fabric or paper since silver requires high moisture. In vitro testing shows that at 20% humidity silver is no better than stainless steel or plastic.
I agree that ingested silver is, at best, quackery designed to part fools and their money. There was a time that people drank radium for its curative powers. Look up the dreadful case of Eben Byers. Look up the Revigator. It's been said there's a sucker born every minute but IMHO the birth rate is higher than that.
BTW, I hold quite a bit of physical silver and gold. I'd love to see the prices blow through the roof because silver cured cancer or whatever. The reality is that silver has limited use in terms of infection prevention. It works on wounds and catheters because it can kill in a warm moist environment.
Nobody is born a sucker, they are created by denying them information. The words out pal...
Wait - I voted you up, but then read the last sentence, which contradicts earler information. You wrote: " In vitro testing shows that at 20% humidity silver is no better than stainless steel or plastic." and then followed that up with: "It works on wounds and catheters because it can kill in a warm moist environment."
Which is it? Isn't "warm, moist environment" greater than 20% humidity?
oops
He's saying if the environment isn't moist, silver won't work. The paper stays pretty duy.
"not surprisingly we see “push-back” from the non-natural, chemical-pushing, pharmaceutical industry"
I am not pushing back, I simply do not participate anymore. Pass the sausage, any eggs left, did you salt the beans, sweeten my tea with maple syrup please. I laugh my ass off when I hear people talk about The Next New Super Food. There are no super foods, just good food and bad food. Eat more medications, have some GMO cereal, eat a thick hormone/antibiotic marinated chicken breast, drink a liter of soda, have a heat and eat dinner, swallow all the medications you were prescribed and wonder why you feel like shit all the time. Go ask a allapath why you feel like shit and get some more medications, yeah do that..
Homeopathy, colloidal silver and herbal remedies don't just treat, they work, and work well. Looking at my 7th decade having stopped drinking the allopathic kool-aid 9 years ago. No statins, no cholestoral meds, no antidepressants, no hydrocodone, no COPD, no fibromyalgia, no diabetes, no GMO high fructose corn syrup, no GMO beet sugar, no frozen processed foods and way, way better off for it.
Has anyone ever heard a Allapathic doctor say, "YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT". My ol'granny said it all the time, and she was right.
Since colloidal-silver is unpatentable, it must a) be unsafe, b) contribute to "global warming," c) be bad for the ozone layer, d) promote school shootings, e) be a "terrorist," etc.
But I'm am sure that patented SuperDuperSilver by Merck will not be any of those things.
An American, not US subject.
"We attacked your home, held you at gun point, tazed your wife, shot your dog, and fondled your daughter because we got a report of the presence of colloidal-silver on these premises. It's the law."
colloidal silver is different than ionic silver, which is mainly converted to silver chloride in the body.
MesoSilver is one of the most efficacious brands, I have used it and it has kept a cold at bay and cured it before it ever got to full expression, I have also used it on food poisoning, and other maladies, for which it seems to work very well. The particle sizes is evidently the most important factor, and evidently both nanosilver and mesosilver have basically the same profile of particle sizes from what I have researched.
Any product that is clear is ionic, so don't pay the big bucks for them, you can do homemade CS and get close to the same concentration of ionic, it appears.
http://drrimatruthreports.com/wp-content/uploads/Analysis-of-DTRA-Nano-Silver-Study.pdf
BULLHONKEY!
The 'research paper' is complete with ads hawking the 'silver-cure-all product'.
When ebola emerged this year the WHO said they'd consider and treatment.
The US FDA soon put a halt to that, seizing humanitarian shipments of nano silver to Africa.
The fear comes from the FDA restricting access to potential cures the WHO says we should be trying.
It does little good to caution 'silver fanatics' about the clear risks of taking these various silver concoctions internally. They aren't listening to what they don't want to hear.
I found the article to be 80% hype and very weak logic, and 20% facts. If you can't identify such risky reasoning and biased conclusions, you're going to have lots of trouble in many areas of life - not just in silver cure-alls.
I like silver a lot - I have it in coins and bars. I don't suck on silver coins for a sore throat, though. You people need to do a much, much more intelligent and thorough risk assessment before you sign on to controversial treatments.
Yes, yes I know - all thru history medical progress was most often achieved by those who thought outside the convention wisdom box. But those scientists (like Pasteur) thought carefully, analyzed carefully, and impartially. They weren't carried along by fads. There is a gross lack of such professional, careful and impartial analysis going on here with the silver health fad.
I would not base my decision even in small part on the words of some unqualified jungle moron in Africa, I can tell you that!
It does little good to caution the yet gullible, non critical thinkers about the dangers of powerful allapathic pharmaceuticals.
That's what drug companies discovered when they openly tell customers their products can kill or ruin your health right in their advertisements.
Paraphrasing, 'Here take this, get a 3 hour hard on but, you might die or become otherwise irreparably impaired..'
"There is a gross lack of such professional, careful and impartial analysis going on here with the silver health fad."
Who let the sane guy in here?
DAZ RAYCISSSSS!
Seriously.
I've used colloidal silver gel on topical wounds. Accelerates healing.
Silver in air is a everything-cide, especially in combination with a little UV. That's why it has a long history of topical use.
It's history of internal use is one of smurfs and quacks though.
It is a thousand year plus remedy. It works, but as everything else in the world no magic bullet.
Sounds like marketing promotion for all silver products.
But a silver filling is laced with mercury. so a 100 year dental cure is more harmful.
I always thought the Silver Bears looked quite healthy.
Depends on if they've been fired or not. New, out of the box, they look just as good as any other ammo.
Can't believe there is such little talk about the link between the anti-microbial/anti-viral/anti-fungal nature of copper/silver/gold and its historic use of money.
Is there a better way to prevent the spread of disease? What travels more than money?
@Robert Paulson
I am unaware of any antimicrobial properties of gold. Silver on a cool dry surface like a coin would be ineffective. The only real option is copper. It has been shown to reduce bacterial counts on surfaces in hospital rooms as well as reduce the infection rate.
The ancient Egyptians would scrape off particles from their bronze swords into a stab wound to prevent infection. Bronze is a copper alloy. It has already been shown that there are fewer bacteria on a bronze door knob than other materials. I still wouldn't want to put a penny in my mouth though.
Once the world wakes up to the potential of copper demand will go ballistic so save your pennies. The real challenge is the feasibility of applying it in everyday life. A solid copper toilet seat at the airport or copper handle on a shopping cart would be stolen in a heartbeat.
Why make things out of solid copper? Can microbes detect solid versus plate?
This is true. There has been studies that show the efficacy of copper to the point hospitals have considered replacing all door knobs and fixtures. Since the recent increase in outbreaks of MRSA, ESBLs and other highly resistant bacteria, there have been studies showing copper can reduce fomite hospital infections. Of course, this would be an expensive proposition and I'm guessing no hospital would consider making such an expense without sound research.
There is even studies that suggest there could be activity against C. difficile vegetative cells as well as hard to kill spores, currently a scourge in hospitals.
http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/content/62/3/522.long
Miffed
Huge water pipe replacement projects have gone down nation wide in major hospitals (early 2000's).
Getting rid of all the plastic and going back to copper.
Drops infection rates enough to pay for itself fairly quickly.
I get it, you're big on copper for its anti-microbial/anti-viral/anti-bacterial properties. Your research and/or academic analysis has concluded it is superior to silver and/or gold. I can't speak to your findings or research.
Whether heard by anecdote, or seen in its historical use, all 3 precious metals have been touted of having anti-microbial/anti-viral and anti-bacterial properties. Google any of the metals and you will see their vast use in those capacities throughout mainstream and alternative medicine up-to and including modern medicine. Peer-reviewed journals have further corroborated these findings. I am no expert in the field, I just asked the question: "Why aren't more people pointing to this aspect of precious metals' history in relation to its usage as money?"
Coincidentally, are you the actual JB McMunn @ Mass General Hospital or is that a pseudonym?
* Copper is registered with the EPA (not FDA) as an antimicrobial surface. In order to obtain EPA registration you have submit a considerable amount of data.
* UCLA recently published in vitro data on antimicrobial copper. They were so impressed they are now doing a multimillion dollar prospective blinded study with regular rooms vs copper surface rooms.
* Sloan-Kettering and Medical University of SC published the clinical work on infection rates.
These are not lunatic fringe people trying to sell their snake oil. They don't own copper mines. Neither do I.
The results of these studies are easy to find on the Internet in peer-reviewed journals.
Believe it or don't believe it, it makes no difference to me. You can read the articles and decide for yourself just like I did.There is nobody named JB McMunn at MGH that I know of.
Maybe the tone of my post is throwing you off when I said "I get it, you're big on copper." It's clear you have far more experience and direct exposure than I do. I am not slandering, villifying, nor disagreeing with your assessment of copper and/or its use in medical environments. Matter of fact, I'm agreeing with you, but I am broadening the conversation to include silver and gold. From there, I commented on their historical use as money!
It is possible that the anti-microbial nature of gold/silver isn't being pushed when discussing re-fitting medical environments because it would be extravagantly cost prohibitive...Here's just a few peer-reviewed journal extracts about the anti-microbial efficacy of silver and gold:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16766878
http://www.jnanobiotechnology.com/content/10/1/19
http://journal.chemistrycentral.com/content/7/1/11
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn5042625
Lastly, I misread the post at truthout.org where I thought you might be a well-known JB McMunn: http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/23382-the-stealthy-ugly-growth-of-corp.... Apparently, you are... Kudos! (But I haven't misread about the known anti-microbial nature of all 3 precious metals :)