Would a surgical mask protect against a pandemic?

The recent worrying events in Mexico about a possible flu pandemic have got me wandering if doing something like getting hold of some surgical masks to wear is a good preventative idea. Ive seen people wear similar masks while over in Japan which got me thinking whether they would actually work, surely if someone sneezed near u and you were wearing one, your eyes would still be exposed which would render them useless, or am i just remembering my biology wrong. Would u have to wear goggles out and about aswell. (would either look an amazing fashion statement or make u look like a tit)Would a surgical mask protect against a pandemic?
The Flu Jab will not protect you from this strain. The current vaccine for swine flu (the human strain) will not cure it either. The current outbreak is of a new genetic strain of H1N1. The new strain is resistant to the two oldest vaccines for swine flu amantadine and rimantadine, but susceptible to oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza).





So this could be a biggie! And if it spreads to europe and east asia then we could have a epidemic on our hands.





It's been found in NYC and there are fears it's already reached London.





There is no cures for viruses!





All it takes is one person to infact 100s





One person coughs passes it onto 2 other people they both sneeze/cough they each pass it onto another 2 people. in 10 mins you'll have 50+ infected.Would a surgical mask protect against a pandemic?
You do make a good point.Viruses CAN infect a person via transmission through the eyes.





However, the majority of the time, it is ingested in order to become infected so wearing masks is more like a 95% effective method type of deal.








You could always decorate it with stickers if it is not fashionable enough for you lol
Not really...how could it when it's full of little holes.
Army: 3 vials of virus samples missing from Maryland facility


Summary:


One of the most mysterious cases from the Bush administration was the unsolved 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States on members of the supposed Left. After targeting Steven Hatfill, the former U.S. Army bioweapons scientist named a “person of interest” by the FBI, the case was suddenly dropped. Then as suddenly as Hatfill’s case was dropped, August 6, 2008 CNN reported that the US Department of Justice announced they believed that Dr. Bruce Ivins, a senior biodefense researcher, was responsible for these attacks. Dr. Bruce Ivins suddenly commits suicide just before being indicted. What is known about the anthrax case is that the spores were weapons grade, taken from a military facility.


The samples of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis missing last year a Fort Detrick lab speaks of the possibility that a new threat is emerging. Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEE) had been standardized and weaponized. What remains now, how fast before the story is buried, and how long before some CIA pawn unleashes bio-hell on the innocent.


[Posted By drp2p]


By Larry Shaughnessy


Republished from Cable News Network





Remember Anthrax?


Missing vials of a potentially dangerous virus have prompted an Army investigation into the disappearance from a lab in Maryland.


Fort Detrick is the home of the Army’s top biological research facility.


The Army’s Criminal Investigation Command agents have been visiting Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, to investigate the disappearance of the vials. Christopher Grey, spokesman for the command, said this latest investigation has found “no evidence of criminal activity.”


The vials contained samples of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis, a virus that sickens horses and can be spread to humans by mosquitoes. In 97 percent of cases, humans with the virus suffer flu-like symptoms, but it can be deadly in about 1 out of 100 cases, according to Caree Vander Linden, a spokeswoman for the Army’s Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. There is an effective vaccine for the disease and there hasn’t been an outbreak in the United States since 1971.


The vials had been at the research institute's facility at Fort Detrick, home of the Army's top biological research facility, for more than a decade. The three missing vials were among thousands of vials that were under the control of a senior scientist who retired in 2004. When another Fort Detrick scientist recently inventoried the retired scientist's biological samples, he discovered that the three vials of the virus were missing. The original scientist's records about his vials dated back to the days of paper-and-pen inventories.


During the investigation, the retired scientist and another former Fort Detrick researcher cooperated with investigating agents and, according to Vander Linden, they came back to the facility to help look for the vials.


Vander Linden said the investigators know that several years ago an entire freezer full of biological samples broke down and all the samples had to be safely destroyed. But a complete inventory of what was in the freezer was not done before the samples were destroyed. Vander Linden said there's a ';strong possibility'; the vials were in that freezer and destroyed, but that isn't known for sure.


This investigation comes two months after all research at the research institute facility at Fort Detrick was halted for a complete computer-based inventory of all disease samples at the fort. That inventory is expected to be complete before summer and may help solve the mystery of the three missing vials, officials said.


The Army investigation is in its final stages and is expected to be closed soon.





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