Economics
Dr. Copper Turns Bug-Killer as Hospitals Seen Boosting Demand
- Hospitals present new opportunity for copper: Bernstein
- Microbial uses could add 1 million tons of demand: analyst
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Copper has long been touted as the metal with a Ph.D in economics, given its ability to monitor global manufacturing and industrial activity. A lesser-known fact about the metal is its effectiveness in fighting hospital infections.
With a growing number of hospitals around the world turning to copper for use on surfaces to help control the spread of superbugs resistant to conventional antibiotics, there’s now another reason to refer to the metal as Doctor Copper.