Data presented at the IDSA meeting also highlighted the problems with N95 respirators, Rupp says.
Workers are sometimes not supplied with respirators for handling and cleaning the yellow cake.
What's next on the back page of the Times supplement, pitches from makers of respirators?
The rubble is hosed down to control dust, and respirators are issued to everyone involved in the cleanup.
Instead, health workers should switch to N95 respirators that form an airtight seal around the nose and mouth.
CNN: Report on handling H1N1 cases: Use masks with airtight seals
Some lost their eyesight, and some of the others were put on dialysis machines or respirators, he said.
Products include respirators, surveillance equipment, radio frequency identification equipment, insulation, weatherproofing materials, cleaning products, mats, and granules for asphalt shingles.
Braces, wheelchairs and other devices assist patients with daily activities, while portable respirators help them breathe in later stages of the disease.
Deegan cautioned that workers in the disaster site should continue using dust masks and respirators and keeping the debris wet to reduce particulates in the air.
The staff wear respirators and protective clothing to avoid infection.
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If properly fitted and worn correctly, N95 respirators filter out at least 95 percent of particles as small as 0.3 micrometers, which is smaller than influenza viruses, the report notes.
CNN: Report on handling H1N1 cases: Use masks with airtight seals
He hit on hydrogen sulfide as a potential knockout after watching a television program in 2002 about spelunkers who had to wear respirators when exploring caves filled with the toxic gas.
Health-care workers say that the respirators are uncomfortable and more difficult to wear than face masks, and that they make it hard to speak with patients, among other problems, he explains.
While the paint shop is as modern as any U.S. factory's, workers wearing respirators (but no eye protection) still use small paintbrushes, rather than automated tools, to slather sealant on critical weld spots.
"These outcomes are all from babies who didn't benefit from the most modern respirators, the most modern technology, the most modern treatments, " said Dr Alan Fleischman, medical director of a US premature birth charity, March of Dimes.
Both studies helped inform an Institute of Medicine (IOM) panel that, in September 2009, issued a report recommending the use of fitted N95 respirators by health-care workers who interact with patients with confirmed or suspected cases of H1N1. (MacIntyre was also a member of that panel.) However, because the two studies were preliminary, the committee said that it could not draw conclusions from either.
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