Five ways to protect yourself and others from swine flu

1. Wash Your Hands
Don’t touch your face. Keep your hands away from your eyes, nose and mouth, because they serve as pathways to viruses. If you must touch your face scrub your hands, including under your fingernails for twenty to thirty seconds. Wash them with hot soap and water because soap has surfactants in it, which is also used in detergent, which will damage fats that protects the virus.

2. Cover your nose and mouth
Sneezes and coughs contain flu viruses and is why they travel as far as three feet. Maintain at least an arm’s length between people with viral sings. To help others when you sneeze or cough cover your mouth and nose with a tissue. Then wash your hands.

3. Use sanitizer
Use alcohol-based sanitizer. About a quarter sized spot, and rub until the sanitizer evaporates completely. Alcohol inactivates viruses by destroying the structure of their proteins.

4. Consider a mask
Surgical masks could be helpful when needed, but they may not be very effective because they filter out water droplets containing the virus. They do little unless hand washing is also frequent. Use facemasks when it is impossible to avoid crowded areas or close contact with infected people, such as caring for a sick family member.

The article could have done a better job thickening the reasoning behind the protection of swine flu, however the just of the protection options are explained in manner that can be circulated and used in public places.