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Air Purifiers Could Trap Swine Flu Particles

You can’t sneeze these days without some clever so-and-so in the vicinity making a joke about having swine flu, with a smirk on his/her face. I guess if we’re all joking about it it can only be a good thing – things haven’t gotten bad yet. As yet we’ve only seen minimal deaths and indeed cases for a pandemic of this scale. However it would be the height of stupidity for us to relax our guard on this matter. The risk of the spread of this virus is far from dying away, and a flare up could happen suddenly and unexpectedly. In the UK the health service recently distributed a leaflet to every household in the country about how to prevent the spread of swine flu germs.The basic message of the pamphlet is this: “if you sneeze, do it in a tissue, then throw it away, then wash your hands, then wash your body, then cover yourself in paraffin and let it evaporate off your body”. (OK I made the last bit up). I guess my point is that if governments are willing to take their public education that far it means they too see it as a real threat, worth potentially upsetting us.

Well, tissues aside, a UK company that specialises in air conditioners has come up with a novel and potentially important way of preventing swine flu. According to JS Humidifiers’ blog, an air purifier could be effective in trapping and removing particles of swine flu virus from the air before it has a chance to spread.Usually, people use air purifiers to prevent allergic reactions and cleanse the air of pollutants.But with most purifiers, fitted with HEPA air filters, they can block particles as tiny as 0.3 micrometers. The minute particles that make up the swine flu virus are just like normal flu particles, at approximately 100 nanometers in size – an air purifier would be able to trap and stop these particles in their tracks.The purifiers that have an ultra violet lamp inside them are virtually guaranteed to stop the flu, as the UV light kills all airborne viruses.

This is really a remarkable discovery. Instead of relying on people who may be infected with swine flu to sneeze into a tissue and constantly wash their hands, imagine the increased containment of having air purifiers fitted in public places like schools and offices! Maybe this is something that governments in the UK and around the world could think about in their contingency planning. And maybe this summer when you are considering buying a portable air conditioner for the home or workplace, you might think about cleansing the air as well as cooling it.

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