Daikin says air purifier halts H1N1 flu spread
15 Sep 2009 09:28:56 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Daikin says Vietnamese institute confirms effectiveness

* Viruses lose infectious power after 4 hours - Daikin

* Shares jump 5 pct after company says has such technology (Adds Health Ministry comment)

By Yuko Inoue

TOKYO, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Japan's Daikin Industries Ltd <6367.T>, the world's No.2 air conditioner maker, said on Tuesday its air purifier can stop the H1N1 flu virus from spreading, sending the firm's shares up 5 percent.

But a Japanese Health Ministry official said there were uncertainties about the machine, such as whether it could be effective in large public rooms.

Daikin said a joint study with Vietnam's National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology had shown that the virus, spreading around the world in a flu pandemic, was no longer contagious after being exposed to its air purifier for four hours.

Shares in Daikin jumped 5 percent on news of the flu-fighting technology in a flat Tokyo market. [.T]

High-speed plasma electrons generated in the air purifier break down H1N1, other viruses and bacteria to nitrogen, oxygen and water, said Daikin, which developed the technology in 2004.

Daikin this month launched its latest air purifier using the technology, a model which it said is 1.5 times more powerful than its previous versions.

The new H1N1 strain of flu, declared a pandemic in June, could eventually infect one-third of the world's population, or 2 billion people, according to the World Health Organization. [ID:nL4442852]

The Health Ministry official said: "Such a machine may function appropriately under certain conditions like in a small room, but may not in places like large gymnasiums, where hundreds of people gather."

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