Word: mask
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Before I left to spend a year in Israel, I bought some art supplies, expecting to use them with children in my capacity as a volunteer. Seven months later, however, my crayons and glow-in-the-dark stickers found their way onto the cardboard box containing my gas mask. It was that same day that I was ordered to stay in Jerusalem, preferably near places with public shelters, and to carry my gas mask with me at all times. Now, three weeks later, as the American troops have attacked much of Western Iraq, the only area from which a missile...
Also known as JSLIST, it is simply a hooded jacket and trousers made of special lightweight fabric that soldiers can wear over their regular uniforms. They also don overboots, protective rubber gloves and a mask...
...Without a vaccine or fail-safe pharmaceutical answer, many countries are resorting to extreme methods to try to contain the disease. Thailand is now requiring anyone entering the country from an infected zone to wear a surgical mask. Schools in Hong Kong will remain closed until April 21. All nonessential surgery has been postponed in Hong Kong and Toronto, so that the overburdened health-care systems can handle the costly and time-consuming treatment of SARS victims. Panic is erupting in usually placid Canada, where Chinese restaurateurs are now having to convince nervous patrons that eating moo shu pork doesn...
...earlier, the WHO had issued its health advisory warning against travel to southern China. At ground zero itself, in Guangdong province, people seemed oblivious to the dangers because of the continuing local media blackout on the disease. Says a taxi driver in Guangzhou, the provincial capital: "Why wear a mask? This disease is a thing of the past." Li Liming, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, on Friday took the unprecedented?for a Chinese official?step of apologizing for China's poor coordination and information sharing...
Should I wear a surgical mask? Probably not. The only people who should be wearing masks are SARS patients and their caretakers...