Face protection effective in preventing the spread of influenza
Thursday, May 21, 2009 - 06:00
in Health & Medicine
A new article in the journal Risk Analysis assessed various ways in which aerosol transmission of the flu, a central mode of diffusion which involves breathing droplets in the air, can be reduced. Results show that face protection is a key infection control measure for influenza and can thus affect how people should try to protect themselves from the swine flu...