{"id":5522,"date":"2009-05-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/?p=5522"},"modified":"2009-05-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T00:00:00","slug":"flu-increases-mask-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/flu-increases-mask-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Swine Flu Increases Demand for Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img src='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/wp\/images\/masks-aero.jpg' alt='Aero mask'><\/center><\/p>\n<div align=justify>During the past two weeks, our customer service representatives have been bombarded by callers who have questions about whether or not a protective mask will protect them against Swine Flu.  The flu scare has increased demand for face masks and respirators all over the United States (Check out this <a href='http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/columnists\/chi-schmich-29-apr29,0,6784889.column' rel='nofollow'>article<\/a> by a writer for the <i>Chicago Tribune<\/i>.)<\/p>\n<p>_To provide information to people and to answer some questions about their masks, Respro, one of our partners in the battle against allergens, has issued a <a href='http:\/\/www.respro.com\/tech\/Swine+Influenza+(Flu)+H1N1+virus' rel='nofollow'>press release<\/a> and posted it to their web site.  The company talks mainly about prevention and they describe a couple of characteristics that are essential for a mask to be effective.  Respro also provides some technical information on masks that protect against mold, hydrocarbons, Avian Flu, pollen, and other airborne particles.<\/p>\n<p>_We have an entire section of information and choices for someone in need of a protective mask.  Check out these <a href='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/masks.asp'>masks<\/a> that we still have available.<\/div>\n<p>_<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the past two weeks, our customer service representatives have been bombarded by callers who have questions about whether or not a protective mask will protect them against Swine Flu. The flu scare has increased demand for face masks and&hellip; <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}