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Xenex updates protocols for germ-zapping robots in response to Ebola threat | Gizmag


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24 October 2014



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“Texas-based Xenex has created protocols that conform to those of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for its a line of robots that use UV lamps that to decontaminate hospital rooms and protective clothing exposed to the Ebola virus, so they can be safely removed.”

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