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An area near the site remained under a shelter-in-place order as emergency responders continued to monitor and decontaminate the hazards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

One email asked whether clinics could decontaminate rooms where people with measles had just been if the clinics were too small to follow the CDC’s recommendation to keep those rooms empty for two hours.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2025

That’s sent water treatment operators scrambling to find ways to decontaminate water supplies without breaking the bank.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 20, 2024

"You don't want to know what's in there. It's full of human waste and other garbage. We decontaminate immediately after each dive."

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2024

For morale purposes, Central Authority let it be known that they were able to decontaminate it, but what actually happened was that the spores lost their effectiveness within a few years of their original seeding.

From Shock Absorber by Dongen, H. R. van

"We created DecontPro, a statistical model that decontaminates two sources of contamination that were observed empirically in CITE-seq data," explains corresponding author Joshua Campbell, PhD, associate professor of medicine at the School.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2023

When a uranium mill shuts down, here is what's supposed to happen: The company demolishes the buildings, decontaminates the surrounding soil and water, and encases the waste to stop it from leaking cancer-causing pollution.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2022

A healthcare worker, who volunteered in the Ebola response, decontaminates his colleague in the eastern Congolese town of Beni in the Democratic Republic of Congo, October 8, 2019.

From Reuters ● Sep. 27, 2022

A doctor who cares for people with COVID-19 in Tijuana, Mexico, decontaminates his clothing and other items before entering his apartment.Credit:

From Nature ● Jul. 23, 2020

Anyone coming into the Mount Airy ranch house decontaminates in the basement first.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2020

Environmental consultants even determined a few smaller buildings could not be effectively decontaminated and consequently had them demolished.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026

When reused, the decontaminated robots still picked up plastic and microbes, albeit smaller amounts of both.

From Science Daily ● May 8, 2024

Infected flocks are normally destroyed to prevent the flu’s spread, and then the farms are decontaminated.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2023

Often buildings must be professionally cleaned or decontaminated by wildfire remediation companies.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2023

“He’d get decontaminated and sit across the room, far, far away from me and only for fifteen minutes. Thirty minutes at the most.”

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

The new law sets France "the goal of decontaminating soil and water polluted" by the pesticide, according to a copy on the parliament's website.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

Workers at Catalyst Refiners Inc. in Institute, W.Va., were cleaning and decontaminating a metal processing site—in preparation for closing it down—when a chemical reaction created dangerous hydrogen sulfide gas around 9:30 a.m.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

Havering Council says decontaminating the site could cost millions.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2025

When dealing with the aftermath of a wildfire, Huml said he starts by decontaminating the attic, ripping out soot-infested insulation and using a spray-on odor sealant on porous wood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025

If we do find such a substance we still have the problem of decontaminating existing metals.

From The Year When Stardust Fell by Jones, Raymond F.