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Just wanted to bring this back up, thanks Threw

Posted by: Threw-er-back Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009 8:38:28 AM
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This is a POWERFUL Message

Chairman’s Message
It's Time and
It's Medizone's Time

There are times in life when you KNOW you are in the right place, at the right time and this was meant to be. Patience is a virtue and the Medizone team and shareholders have demonstrated that in abundance. However, that is only one of our many, many virtues.

I believe Medizone is on the cusp of doing great things, of making a significant contribution nationally and internationally not only in the area of hospital sterilization, but by also being able to demonstrate we can offer decontamination capability for critical infrastructure including bio-terrorism countermeasures against pathogens that our government currently has no viable response to.

Largely preventable hospital acquired infections (HAIs) are by any accepted definition now an epidemic. In America alone, more people die every year of HAIs than of breast cancer or AIDS. The reported deaths associated with HAIs is expected to rise dramatically over the next year as reporting of HAIs, other than on a voluntary basis, has not been required by many jurisdictions. That is now changing as laws have been enacted that will require more accurate and complete statistical data. Both public and professional awareness of this immense medical problem is only going to increase as reporting becomes mandatory and the data is collected.

As we progress the knowledge of what we have learned at our laboratory in Innovation Park at Queen's University to full scale production equipment capable of demonstrating greater than 4 log and in most cases 5 log (99.999%) reductions in the pathogens responsible for HAIs, the world will be waiting. The global need for this technology is immense and awareness of our capability is rapidly growing.

Medicare has named hospital acquired infections associated with three common procedures for which it will no longer reimburse hospitals, starting later this year. This means from October 2009, prevention of health-care acquired infections will come down to dollars and cents issues for hospitals. With the Medicare announcement that it will no longer pay for treating eight preventable hospital errors hospitals have a huge incentive to prevent HAIs. It is likely some insurance companies will follow the government’s lead and also stop covering the cost of many HAIs.

Medizone has the answer for this global problem. We invite you to watch the video on the AsepticSure™ development program as presented at Medizone’s recent AGM by Dr. Shannon and myself. Not only can AsepticSure™ save countless thousands of lives, it will save hospitals an estimated $6 to $7 for each one-dollar invested.

Medizone is the right place at the right time.

Edwin G. Marshall
Chairman & CEO
Medizone International, Inc.