{"id":4483,"date":"2020-03-17T17:29:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T16:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=4483"},"modified":"2020-03-17T17:29:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T16:29:13","slug":"copper-kills-superbugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2020\/03\/copper-kills-superbugs.html","title":{"rendered":"Copper Kills Superbugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In China, it was called \u201cqi,\u201d the symbol for health. In Egypt it was called \u201cankh,\u201d the symbol for eternal life. For the Phoenicians, the reference was synonymous with Aphrodite\u2014the goddess of love and beauty.<\/p>\n<p>These ancient civilizations were referring to copper, a material that cultures across the globe have recognized as vital to our health for more than 5,o00 years. When influenzas, bacteria like E. coli, superbugs like MRSA, or even coronaviruses land on most hard surfaces, they can live for up to four to five days. But when they land on copper, and copper alloys like brass, they die within minutes. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen viruses just blow apart,\u201d says Bill Keevil, professor of environmental healthcare at the University of Southampton. \u201cThey land on copper and it just degrades them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90476550\/copper-kills-coronavirus-why-arent-our-surfaces-covered-in-it\">Copper kills coronavirus. Why aren\u2019t our surfaces covered in it<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In China, it was called \u201cqi,\u201d the symbol for health. In Egypt it was called \u201cankh,\u201d the symbol for eternal life. For the Phoenicians, the reference was synonymous with Aphrodite\u2014the goddess of love and beauty. These ancient civilizations were referring to copper, a material that cultures across the globe have recognized as vital to our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4484,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions\/4484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}