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LIQUITECH STRIKES BACK AT LEGIONELLA ... SUCCESSFULLY ERADICATES BACTERIA FROM CONTAMINATED CALGARY-REGION HOSPITALS

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Calgary Health Region turns to LIQUITECH to combat Legionella. Twelve of its hospitals are tested for the bacteria. The bacteria were discovered at Rockyview General and Alberta ChildrenÕs Hospital in December 2003.

Legionella bacteria found at two Alta. hospitals Canadian Press

CALGARY Ñ Specialized [LIQUITECH™] water treatment units are being installed at all Calgary-region hospitals following the discovery of the potentially deadly Legionella bacteria at a second city health centre. The Calgary Health Region began testing water at all 12 of its hospitals after the bacteria was discovered at Rockyview General in December 2003. On Thursday, the region announced the tests discovered Legionella in water at the Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary.

The children's hospital will be regularly flushing its water systems with ultra-hot water until a $50,000 [LIQUITECH™] silver-copper ionization unit can be installed . . . The first ionization unit is scheduled to be installed at the Rockyview in July, and the children's hospital will get the next one. The units will eventually be installed as a preventive measure at all acute-care hospitals in the region.

The region, which stretches west to Banff and south to Claresholm, includes four hospitals in Calgary and eight in smaller centres . . . "Legionella was found at the Rockyview Hospital in Calgary and as a consequence of that the regional health authority, in my view, took all the right steps to examine their other facilities to see if it existed," Mar said in Edmonton. "It has been found in the Children's Hospital and they are taking the right steps to ameliorate it."

At the Rockyview, legionella was discovered in the intensive care and emergency units shortly before a woman in her 80s died of heart disease Dec. 17. The woman had pneumonia caused by the bacteria, but did not die of legionnaires' disease. The bacteria turned up in tests she had while she was still alive. Water tests subsequently found low levels of the legionella bacteria in four taps.

About LIQUITECH, INC.

Founded in 1988, LIQUITECH provides technology now widely recognized as the most effective method of controlling Legionella in water systems. Its effectiveness has been proven in the laboratory, in numerous field studies and is endorsed by many major universities and medical facilities. There are more than 700 LIQUITECH™ systems installed worldwide and more peer reviews written about systems manufactured by LIQUITECH than any other Legionella control modality. LIQUITECH™ products are protected by U.S. Patent No. 6,126,820 and 6,325,944, and other pending patent applications.

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