- A preliminary report suggesting that N95 respirators — filtering devices worn over the mouth and nose — protect against swine flu better than surgical face masks seems to be incorrect, researchers revealed during a meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).

In fact, surgical face masks, which are cheaper and easier to wear, may be just as good as N95 respirators. At the very least, researchers can’t prove that one is better than the other. It’s the latest wrinkle in a continuing debate over how to protect health-care workers from the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu.

Raina MacIntyre, Ph.D., a professor of infectious diseases epidemiology and the head of the University of New South Wales School of Public Health and Community Medicine, in Sydney, Australia, says the research team didn’t exactly retract the findings.

“We simply did the analysis of the same data differently for the final paper,” she explains.

Article taken from cnn health

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Oh my god!! swine flu! What we call H1N1, seems like a great threat for almost all countries and has been a hot topic for all doctors and scientists nowadays. People are horrified from it, so for prevention they are wearing masks, taking vaccines and so on. Every country is putting an effort to control this devil to some extent and scientists are doing research for the prevention and control.

So the question arises  what are you doing to prevent yourself from this?

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