Showing posts with label swine flu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swine flu. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

(Holy) Water Fountain


Italian inventor, Luciano Marabese, has developed an automatic holy-water dispenser to combat the spread of the H1N1 virus.



[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120340662]

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

H1N1 (+ Fashion?)


The FDA announced that a "swine flu" vaccine will be available in approximately three weeks time for those at higher risk, and eventually for everyone.

But let us not forget to continue to take proper precautions:

- Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze (or sneeze into your elbow). Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.

- Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective.

- Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way.

- Try to avoid close contact with sick people.

- If you are sick with flu-like illness, CDC recommends that you stay home for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone except to get medical care or for other necessities. (Your fever should be gone without the use of a fever-reducing medicine.) Keep away from others as much as possible to keep from making others sick.


And, for the fashionable mysophobic, a few trendy options:

(Done Right)



(Gone Wrong)