This time we appear in the American Society for Clinical Pathology’s email newsletter.

Again, the only thing we can apparently kill with plasma is staph infections and apparently this technology has not been tested in U.S. Gosh, I mean can I believe news at all these days? I do realize that the people printing these articles don’t really know too terribly much about such things, but… They are re-interpreting what Gary told them. And re-interpreting it incorrectly. Rather than “incorrectly” I think the proper term is “wrongly”.

Alas, such is life, I suppose.

In case the above link disappears in time, here is the text from it:

Plasma gas may treat staph infections, study suggests.

The UPI (10/20) reported that plasma may be a potential “treatment for staph infections,” according to research presented at the “International Conference on Plasma Medicine” last week in Corpus Christi, Tex. Gary Friedman, of the Drexel Plasma Institute, noted that studies have shown that “plasma…kills bacteria without adverse effects on human skin,” and that tissue can be sterilized

with it “in five to 10 seconds.”

However, the current technology is still in the early stages of development. Added Friedman, “It’s difficult knowing there’s technology available to kill bacteria 10 times worse than staph, and not be able to get it to those who are infected,” according to the Corpus Christi (Tx.) Caller Times (10/19, Chirinos). The plasma treatment “produces no temperature, but can sterilize tissue and wounds without damaging anything but bacteria.” The treatment still needs to be tested for “long-term effects on human tissue.”