They are anaerobic, meaning that they can thrive only where oxygen levels are depleted. Ozone increases oxygen levels. Viruses can also be destroyed by ozone on contact. In the case of polio only 0.012ppm removes all viral cells in seconds. As you know there isn t an effective antibiotic that will touch a virus.
Ozone is a particularly safe therapy to use provided that certain restrictions are respected.
Even at these higher rates no harm has been caused, in fact the opposite is the case. In cleaning water, ozone is more efficient even than chlorine, in fact an ozone level of 0.04ppm in just 4 minutes has been shown to kill bacteria, mold and fungus. Giardia and Cryptosporidium cysts are susceptible to ozone but are unaffected by normal levels of chlorine in water. Chlorine reacts with organic materials to form chloroform, carbon tetrachloride etc generally known as trihalomethanes. These have been implicated as carcinogens in the development of kidney, bladder and colon cancer.