Swine Flu Fashion? Japan Introduces Swine Flu-Proof Suit

[AlaskaDenise]

Swine flu season is raging, but there are ways to protect yourself: Get the swine flu vaccine, wash your hands, wear a mask over your nose and mouth?or buy a suit designed to protect against the flu.

After a year of designing and testing, Haruyama Trading Co. is now selling a line of 50,000 ?swine-flu-proof suits? at $580 a piece. The suit is coated in titanium dioxide (a chemical used in toothpaste and cosmetics). The idea behind it is simple: When the virus lands on your clothing and is hit by light, the coating will kill any virus cells. (Titanium dioxide behaves like a photocatalyst, which needs light before it can destroy the virus.) The company claims the suit can still flight the flu even after it has gone through the wash.

We?re not sure how the suit is selling so far, but we do know that swine flu is spreading in Japan: 18 people have died so far and 23,275 cases of flu have been reported.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d...ashion-japan-introduces-swine-flu-proof-suit/

 

[gsgs]

Re: Swine Flu Fashion? Japan Introduces Swine Flu-Proof Suit

alternatively desinfect the suit after usuage and you can get
it much cheaper, just a few Euro.
Can viruses penetrate plastic ?

 

[SolarD]

Avoid influenza all year long like we do in the summer

Avoid influenza all year long like we do in the summer

The key to avoiding influenza is in understanding it's seasonality. In 1981 British physician Edgar Hope-Simpson described this as "the seasonal stimulus". In Feb 2008 Dr JJ Cannell posited that this seasonality was due to vitamin D deficiency (Virology Journal - On the epidemiology of Influenza).

Supplemental vitamin D sufficient to get the 25-OH vitamin D level into the upper quartile of reference ( 80 +/- 10 ng/ml) is my target.