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Jessica Green: Are we filtering the wrong microbes?

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Should we keep the outdoors out of hospitals? Ecologist and TED Fellow Jessica Green has found that mechanical ventilation does get rid of many types of microbes, but the wrong kinds: the ones left in the hospital are much more likely to be pathogens.

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TEDTalks;TEDGlobal 2011;TED;Talks;health;microbiology;science;2011

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