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A South Florida business says their invention clears the air people breathe of pathogens, and they say their product is in high demand.

Since more cases of the virus known as COVID-19 have been confirmed around the world and in the U.S., more calls are coming in for Dana Leonaggeo’s discovery.

“We just had a call the other day from the Netherlands wanting 108 of them, and we have this little facility,” Leonaggeo, Scientific Air Management’s founder, said.

“We have seen at least a four-fold increase in our business, and that’s just in the last two months,” Scientific Air Management CMO Randy Nobles said.

The Pompano Beach facility is where a device is created that can disinfect the air in a normal sized room in about 30 minutes. The machine brings air in through top and down into the bottom, known as the “kill chamber.”

Leonaggeo said hospitals keep the invention in some locations, such as in emergency rooms, cancer wards and patient recovery rooms.

“Isolation rooms like you’re seeing with COVID, the latest virus that has come out,” Leonaggeo said. “We just know that a lot of this is airborne. Air goes in there with any kind of pathogen you can imagine, and what comes out the other end is strictly disinfected air.

7News cameras captured a team of assembly technicians working on orders for the Scientific Air Management Model 400.