Minimal Amount of Current Needed to Render Pathogens Harmless

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The discussion centers on the use of micro-currents to render bacteria and viruses harmless, suggesting potential applications in sterilizing water and blood. The concept has been explored in research, such as the study from Stanford University on purifying water through electrocuting pathogens. While this method may offer cost or convenience advantages over traditional UV and 0.2um filtration, it is not suitable for medical applications due to the risk of damaging healthy tissue.

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Bacteria and viruses should require only micro-currents to destroy them or render them harmless. Can such an approach be used to sterilize water...or perhaps even blood (en-vitro or even en-vivo)?
 
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Frank1952 said:
Bacteria and viruses should require only micro-currents to destroy them or render them harmless.
Why?
 
Purifying water with an electric filter has been investigated:
http://web.stanford.edu/group/knowledgebase/cgi-bin/2010/09/02/purifying-water-by-electrocuting-pathogens/

I'm not sure why this would be any better than standard UV and 0.2um filters but perhaps it might turn out cheaper or more convenient in some circumstances. In terms of medical use it's not going to have any use trying to kill pathogens inside the body. Simply because this type of thing would kill healthy tissue as well.
 
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