Revolutionary Sports and Safety Equipment Sanitizing
System Arrives in the Northwest
News Release - April 24, 2004
A revolutionary new way to clean, smelly – and often bacteria-infected – hockey, football and lacrosse gear, bulky pillows, firefighter gear and many other items that have been difficult to wash has arrived in the Northwest. This new cleaning system with its patented technology uses safe and environmentally friendly cleaning solutions in a four-cycle process to get equipment clean, fragrant and germ free. More...
Super-Resistant Superbug
CBS News 60 Minutes - May 5, 2004
It's been 60 years since Dr. Alexander Fleming discovered a drug called penicillin, the first antibiotic. Since then, doctors have prescribed the drugs to cure everything from pneumonia to scarlet fever. But now, scientists are sounding the alarm that we have been overusing antibiotics - and that the germs have figured out ways to become resistant to them. More...
Local man cleaning up with gear
Tennessean - June 9, 2004
A Hermitage businessman believes his company can help stamp out a growing problem in the athletic world, and he's already made believers of some high-profile clients: the Predators, Vanderbilt University and the University of
Tennessee. More...
County jails try to avert outbreak of infections
The Oregonian - August 22, 2004
Multnomah County jails increasingly house a new breed of inmate: opportunistic and unfeeling, with a taste for human flesh. Jailers and prisoners alike fear attacks as the newcomer moves from cell to cell -- to skin cell. The troublemaker is methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a drug-resistant bacterium that infects many people but rarely causes trouble -- except where unhealthy people gather, as in hospitals and jails. In the weak or wounded, the germ can cause such things as weeping boils or, in rare cases, life-threatening infections. More...
Stinky Apparel Gets Ultimate Workout
Portland Tribune - January 11, 2005
Smelly recreational clothes, once thought to be a lost cause, now can be returned to fresher days at Northwest Clean Gear LLC. The company’s co-founders, Brian and Mary Edwards, use a washing machine from the Canadian manufacturer Esporta Wash Systems Inc. that eliminates sweat, dirt, bacteria and even infectious microorganisms like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. More...
Student Athletes Contract Herpes While Wrestling
KOIN News 6 - January 11, 2005
NEWBERG, Ore. -- A handful of Oregon high school wrestlers got herpes from practicing their sport. Concerned parents say they were left in the dark about the risk that their kids were taking. More...
Super Bowl XXXIX - Teams Keep Eye on Staph Infections
USA Today - February 3, 2005
Cuts and abrasions happen in football and other sports. A report published today is another reminder they can lead to a dangerous infection known as MRSA. Such infections among five of the NFL's St. Louis Rams in 2003, all linked to synthetic turf abrasions, were analyzed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. More...
Menance In the Locker Room
Sports Illustrated - February 28, 2005 Issue
MRSA, a strain of antibiotic-resistant staphylococcus once confined to hospitals, is striking athletes at an alarming rate and with dire consequences. Read this
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Experts see rise in staph infections
Eugene Register-Guard - February 28, 2005
When Deborah Willis first noticed the angry sore on her stomach, she thought it was a spider bite, but within a few days, she said, it looked more like a bullet hole. The first round of antibiotics prescribed by a doctor did nothing to heal the nasty-looking infection, and soon another sore appeared on her thigh. Willis is now on her third different antibiotic, and if this round doesn't work, she may be in for 14 days of intravenous antibiotics in the hospital, she said. More...
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