The University of Southampton has performed a study by Dr C. William Keevil, indicating that copper has certain effects on the elimination of E-coli, salmonella, MRSA, and H1N1 virus. Link To Study. The study simulated ‘droplet contamination’ of H1N1 Influenza A on a copper surface and a stainless steel surface separately. On the steel surface, there were about 500,000 live bacteria following the elasped time. In comparison, the number of bacteria on the copper surface was eliminated by 75% after just one hour, and roughly 500 bacteria remained after 6 hours. The study also ‘shows that copper targets various cellular sites, not only killing bacterial and viral pathogens, but also rapidly destroying their nucleic acid genetic material so there is no chance of mutation occurring and nothing to pass on to other microbes, a process called horizontal gene transfer. Consequently, this helps prevent breeding the next generation of superbug.’ Dr C. William Keevil.

英國南安普頓大學 （University of Southampton, UK) 的 C. William Keevil 博士在銅和不鏽鋼表面上培養甲型H1N1流感病毒並進行了觀察。24小時後，不鏽鋼表面上還有約50萬細菌生存。 而銅表面上的細菌在一小時之內被消除約75%。過了6小時後只有約500個細菌生存。 研究指出，銅對消除大腸菌，沙門氏菌，MRSA等超級細菌以及甲型H1N1流感病毒都有一定效果。防止具有抗菌素耐性的細菌轉移及感染。 研究指出，基因水平轉移能夠在人們經常接觸的不鏽鋼杯，餐桌等周邊環境發生。而與銅接觸時，有迅速殺死細菌的效果。 不鏽鋼表面上大腸桿菌 （Escherichia coli)，肺炎克雷伯菌 （Klebsiella pneumonia) 能長期（幾週）生存。而銅和銅合金的兩種病毒快速死掉，且觀察到微生物內的基因被破壞。由此可見，銅能有效防止基因轉移及感染的擴散。

Copper helps destroy coronaviruses such as SARS and MERS. Animal coronaviruses that 'host jump' to humans, such as SARS and MERS, result in severe infections with high mortality. The Southampton researchers found that a closely-related human coronavirus - 229E - can remain infectious on common surface materials for several days, but is rapidly destroyed on copper. According to World Health Organization, CoVID-19 is a type of Coronavirus that is closely related to SARS and MERS. (Since CoVID-19 is a novel virus, this product does not have correspondent lab tests performed on CoVID-19)

銅消除細菌遺傳體及細菌本身。據英國南安普頓大學研究隊，人類冠狀病毒 - 中東呼吸綜合冠狀病毒 (MERS-CoV） 及嚴重急性呼吸系統綜合症 （沙士 SARS-CoV 冠狀病毒）與銅接觸時，其遺傳體及病毒本身都被破壞，使其無法感染。不經過抗菌處理，光靠銅可以降低病毒的感染及擴散風險。 根據世界衛生組織表示，武漢肺炎 （2019-nCoV）是一種新的冠狀病毒，與其他冠狀病毒非常相似。(現在這產品沒能做出相關測試。 )