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

Lotti Tajouri; Matthew Olsen; Rashed Alghafri; Simon McKirdy

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

Lotti Tajouri
, Matthew Olsen
, Rashed Alghafri
, Simon McKirdy

Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Journal	The Conversation
Publication status	Published - 14 Nov 2022

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

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