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Re:Italian hospital saves Covid-19 patients by 3D printing v... by raverbashing on Monday March 16, 2020 @04:36AM (#22591004)
Yeah. For example, thinking about needles and syringes, they used to be disinfected by boiling water. That's certainly not enough to kill all existing pathogens especially after you used it in a person.

You probably need to autoclave the parts, and then some more to be sure.

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Re:Italian hospital saves Covid-19 patients by 3D printing v... by pvaldes on Monday March 16, 2020 @06:38AM (#22591519)
This would be ok some decades ago. Now we know that prions can survive
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Re:Italian hospital saves Covid-19 patients by 3D printing v... by raverbashing on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:56AM (#22602709)
Autoclaving is hard but it seems to be doable for Prions https://consteril.com/prion-sterilization-guide/

Simple boiling won't do much even for viruses

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