National Geographic Naked-Science Swine Flu: The Science of Pandemics

As news of the recent so-called swine flu outbreak grabs headlines around the world, we are once again confronted with the possibility of a flu pandemic.

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A closer look at the I-Con™ - Isolation and containment for pandemic control.

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American Innovative Research (A.I.R.) cofounders, David Palmer and Judy Piscione, explain how the impact of the avian flu pandemic originally motivated their company’s researching a home option of an isolation and containment unit.

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W.H.O. Says It Is Closer to Declaring Flu Pandemic

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
NYTimes.com
Published: June 3, 2009
The H1N1 virus has reached 64 countries, and there have been dozens or hundreds of cases in several nations outside North America
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Concerns Over Global Spread of H1N1 Influenza or Swine Flu Accelerate the Pre-Production Run on A.I.R. Isolation and Containment Units

American Innovative Research Corporation (A.I.R. Corp.) announces plans to accelerate the pre-production development of their Isolation and Containment units (I-Con™). According to A.I.R. company officials, when you’re facing a pandemic, prevention is as important as a cure and David Palmer, CEO and co-founder of the three-year-old Andover, Massachusetts company states – “The I-Con™ is a portable air purification and sterilization system, the size of a home air conditioning unit, that will inhibit the spread of airborne infectious diseases such as the H1N1 influenza or swine flu.”

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