Posted by unregistered user: marlene
Over millions of years our immune system has developed to cope almost perfectly by being regularly exposed and strengthened by millions of germs. What effect would it have to put our people in a low or no germ environment most of the time? Would germs learn some new tactics to escape these machines too just as they have adjusted to antibiotics and chemical disinfectants? In an operating room ,or in surgical recovery this disinfection might be great. As a common effect on the environment, we could all become susceptible to the simplest infection. Two Thumbs down on this idea.