I knew I was facing a steep incline in getting some people to see my vision when a former Director of the NC Biotechnology Center told me that what I was doing "...is not biotechnology" and a Cancer Center Director told me that I had "...things figured wrong". I rebounded a year later and found the inquisitiveness and gentle nature of Dr. Steve Bachenheimer, a microbiologist, who entertained my request to test HPUV™. The results were a landmark, HPUV™ inactivated one million colonies of herpes simplex virus, HSV, in 3 seconds! Since that day the device has not met a microbial target it could not rapidly inactivate. But the highly efficient inactivation was only a proof of concept for a much larger vision for HPUV™. Biotechnology and medical treatment offered immense landscapes for development of novel devices, treatment, diagnostics and new insight. The gap of medical and scientific information to be garnered from HPUV™ is still available.
Conventional thinking has been slow to accept HPUV™'s promise. Instead, those contacted have been unwilling to collaborate or continue proof of concepts. While the cost of development is minimal, ask Bachenheimer, and the proposals are simple, nebulous excuses or 'sudden loss of interest' following confidential disclosures dash hopes of going forward. Until there is a willingness to evaluate unconventional technologies like HPUV™ the poor state of managing infection costs in the billions annually, illness and loss of life described below will persist.
Dr. Bachenheimer has retired and what a shame because open minds are hard to find.
Nosocomial Infection Statistics4.5 hospital acquired infections per 100 admitted people
1.7 million people infected per year
99,000 people die each year (6%)
Estimated as low as $5.7 to as high as $45 billion in medical cost per year
Coronary artery disease ~ $17.5 billion
Congestive heart failure ~ $11.2 billion
Stroke ~ $6.7 billion
Diabetes mellitus with complications ~ 4.2 billion
Pseudomona aeruginosa
136,000 people infected via HAIs (~8000 deaths)
Also infects immunocompromised patients
-Chemotherapy
-Cystic fibrosis
-AIDS
Plants (lettuce, beans, etc)
Animals (mice, insects, worm, etc.)
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