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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/800/copper_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Copper Metal Kills Viruses on Contact' data-article-id='1207'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='9958'>One of the major ways we get sick is we touch surfaces out in the world, many made of metal or plastic. </span> <span data-start-time='9958' data-end-time='14188'>These surfaces are covered with germs. </span> <span data-start-time='14188' data-end-time='18521'>Germs live on poles on a train or bus. </span> <span data-start-time='18521' data-end-time='22125'>They are found on doorknobs and handles.</span> <span data-start-time='22125' data-end-time='26500'>This is especially true in hospitals.</span> <span data-start-time='26500' data-end-time='33688'>Bill Keevil is a microbiologist at Southampton University in Britain. </span> <span data-start-time='33688' data-end-time='43021'>He is investigating the properties of copper that kill germs -- or as researchers call them, pathogens.</span> <span data-start-time='43021' data-end-time='52646'>Keevil points to studies that compare infection rates at U.S. hospitals that use copper surfaces and those that do not.</span> <span data-start-time='52646' data-end-time='58125'>They found that copper alloys gave a 58 percent reduction in infection rate.</span> <span data-start-time='58125' data-end-time='65313'>So that showed, you know, that in the real world of a hospital environment, copper alloys do a great job (in preventing infection).</span> <span data-start-time='65313' data-end-time='77813'>In a study published in the journal mBio, Keevil and his team found that copper surfaces can quickly kill the coronavirus 229E.</span> <span data-start-time='77813' data-end-time='82375'>You may not know coronavirus 229E by name.</span> <span data-start-time='82375' data-end-time='90917'>But if you ever have had the common cold or the more serious pneumonia, you have been in contact with it.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/800/cop_image.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=5197 data-hint-location='33688' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/800/what_does_pathogen_mean.m4a'>What does pathogen mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='something that causes disease'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/800/extremely_good.m4a'><span>extremely good</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/800/something_that_causes_disease.m4a'><span>something that causes disease</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/800/a_change_in_the_genes.m4a'><span>a change in the genes</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/800/to_argue.m4a'><span>to argue</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=5198 data-hint-location='33688' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/800/what_elements_properties_is_keevill_investigating.m4a'>What element's properties is Keevill investigating?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='copper'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/800/carbon.m4a'><span>carbon</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/800/hydrogen.m4a'><span>hydrogen</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/800/copper.m4a'><span>copper</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/800/zinc.m4a'><span>zinc</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=5199 data-hint-location='52646' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/800/keevill_found_that_copper_alloys_reduced_the__blank__rate.m4a'>Keevill found that copper alloys reduced the <span class='blank'>infection</span> rate.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='infection'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/800/infection.m4a'><span>infection</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/800/germ.m4a'><span>germ</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/800/death.m4a'><span>death</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/800/birth.m4a'><span>birth</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>

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