PROTECT YOURSELF FROM THE GERMS LIKE HFLU,STREP,STAPH,TB,COMMON COLD, USE A SAFE-TELWe are facing the flu and cold season and the predictions of this year's strains of disease are certainly not good. The future would certainly appear bleak if it weren't for Safe-Tel, a telephone bacteria barrier that can actually be used anywhere on any telephone surface. Safe-Tel can also be used on the earpiece, which can help prevent the spread of lice and ear infections.

"If I were at a party...drinking a beer in a glass, would you drink out of the glass of beer if you knew I had a cold? You would not. But why would you use the phone?
- Dr. Edward Decter,
surgeon-inventor

STOP BUGS FROM INFECTING YOUR TELEPHONE, PUT A SAFE-TEL ONDuring normal speaking, people expectorate and this bacteria-laden fluid can penetrate the holes in the telephone mouthpiece. If a seriously ill person coughs or sneezes while on the telephone, pathogenic bacteria can be deposited on and in the telephone. Cleaning with alcohol helps, but does not eliminate the bacteria that could exist inside the mouthpiece. Just as you would not use a glass or utensil of a stranger or ill person, would you put your mouth against a telephone, especially not knowing who used it last?

TELEPHONE BACTERIA BARRIER FIGHTS GERMS INSIDE THE PHONEEvery time someone picks up the phone, their mouth acts as a vacuum, inhaling germs, bacteria and airborne transmittable diseases. these germs can live for days, breeding in this moist, dark place. Whether at home, work or on the road, you are exposed to these germs every time you pick up the telephone.

STUDIES
Using a receiver recently touched by someone with a cold or flu may give you their illness, says Terry M. Phillips, Ph.D., of George Washington University Medical Center - Woman's Day 11/1/94

Telephones can be doubly treacherous: Not only does bacteria lie on the surface, where you can get them on your fingers, but they can lurk in the mouthpiece. "If you use a phone shortly after someone with a cold has breathed into it, you run a risk of inhaling the bacteria," says Terry M. Phillips, Ph.D., director of George Washington University's Immunogenetics and Immunochemistry Laboratories in Washington, D.C.

An Independent Study done at George Washington University Laboratory Dept. of Immunogenetics and Immuno Chemistry revealed for the following: "We have found there is evidence of bacteria on public telephones which are harmful to human health and that a Safe-Tel membrane barrier will protect telephone users against contact with these bacteria." Dr. Terry M Phillips Ph.D.

Ken Kruta, a virologist in Jersey City, tested public phones in the Essex County area (New Jersey).
     Using sterilized wooden toothpicks, Kruta scraped the holes inside the mouthpieces of phones in both the suburbs and the inner cities. "I wasn't even interested in the surface of the mouthpiece...because if (bacteria) are going to live for more than a day or two, they would go to a harbor, a sanctuary," Kruta said.
     Later, under controlled laboratory conditions, he was able to grow bacteria from the samples and conduct diagnostic tests. His testing turned up staph, strep and a number of other pathogenic organisms.
     The results indicated that whenever one uses a public phone, whether it be indoor or outdoor, urban or suburban, idle or immediately following its use, chances are that there will be some exposure to one or more infectious agents.

Conclusions: During normal use, both public and private telephones become contaminated with a variety of different pathogenic bacteria, fungi, and viruses. These organisms have mechanisms whereby they can survive both on the inert surface of the plastic telephone mouthpiece and within the mouthpiece, itself. Viability studies indicate that all of these organisms are capable of surviving desiccation on the inert surface and maintaining their disease inducing potential. The Safe-Tel membrane was shown to be an effective barrier against all of the bacteria and fungi tested. Although it was impossible to actually test the potential of the disease promoting activity of the virus units which were able to cross the membrane at 2 hours or longer exposure, the levels of outer membrane contamination indicated that potential infection levels were present. Overall, the Safe-Tel membrane appears to be an effective short-term barrier against possible aerosal-mediated infections arising from microbial contamination of telephones.

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