“The results are unbelievable!” Alan Jones put Comsan to the test at his own office recently and was shocked, not only at the amount of bacteria found, but at our ability to fix the problem so quickly and easily. Listen in on Comsan’s Jake Tyson having a chat with the man himself, about sanitising offices, buildings and even public transport.

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Sydney is facing one of it’s worst flu and virus seasons to date and it is cause for genuine concern. Recently, a severe outbreak of gastro, or gastroenteritis, has swept through the region, putting more than 1,900 people in the hand of the NSW health care system. Not only is this a worry for individual health and wellbeing, but also for the system with which these large numbers of humans have to fall on.

Notably, childcare centres and aged care facilities are being hit the hardest, which is causing extra concern for families and loved ones of the young and the elderly. In just one week, 32 instances of gastro outbreak in these types of care centres, resulting in over 180 cases. Viral gastroenteritis is highly contagious and can be spread a number of ways, stressing the importance of awareness when outbreaks such as this occur.

 

Read more on this article here, via News Local.

 

Norovirus is a virus that causes gastro and the severe symptoms that coincide it. It is particularly infectious and is commonly the cause of gastro outbreaks in schools, childcare centres and aged care facilities. Close human contact on a day-to-day level is a key factor in the spread of viruses such as this. Currently, an aged care home in Hervey Bay, on the Fraser Coast, is in lockdown after a breakdown of norovirus last week. It is understood that thirty patients and twenty staff were infected and ill, a huge amount! Read more on this catastrophic case in the Fraser Coast Chronicle’s latest article here.