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Tempted to buy a UV light disinfection gadget? Some can be dangerous – here's what you need to know

  • Written by: Lotti Tajouri, Associate Professor, Genomics and Molecular Biology; Biomedical Sciences, Bond University
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The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed many of our behaviours and attitudes towards infection control.

Hand hygiene was one of the earliest and most adopted measures to counteract the spread of disease, but there have been more technology-based approaches, too.


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