A ceiling, wall- or surface-mounted light fixture with a housing containing one or more external visible light sources to illuminate the space where the light fixture is mounted, one or more emitters inside or outside the housing to destroy bacteria, viruses, and pathogens in area inside or outside the housing, and one or more fans inside the housing that recirculate the air in a space and subject the air to bacteria, viruses, and pathogen-destroying influence inside the housing, destroying bacteria, viruses, and pathogens in the air passing though the housing.