Silver Solution: Anthrax

Brigham Young University, Sporicidal activity, Bacillus subtilis or subtilis as they like to call it. We tested against anthrax because we’re working with U.S. government. They had some problems; they had anthrax spread in a bunch of buildings. It was a huge problem. We went in and said, ‘Look we can kill it. We have done tests on anthrax.’ They said, ‘You can’t test on anthrax. If you wanted to get approved for anthrax by the U.S. government, you can’t do anthrax.’ I said, ‘What?’ They said, ‘No you actually have to do bacillis subtilis and also clostridium sporogenes.

The average time it takes the glutaraldehyde products, the nasty products, these are products made with chemicals so ugly that it’ll rip your skin off. The average time it takes for those to kill those pathogens is about 10 hours. You’ll notice in the series of studies that most of them were 4 to 6, 1-8 hours. We’re not only killing the pathogen we’re killing the spore. The spore is hard because it’s like a seed. It’s covered in a hard shell. You can’t kill it, we did. It took about 8 hours, 8 hours seems like a long time except for the fact that we were much faster than the nastiest chemical product. This is something you can have in your house. Why in the world would you cover your house with plastic and duct tape? You actually have something in your house now that can kill it, proven to kill it.