To prevent an epidemic, it would be worth shaving everyone.
Getting rid of facial hair is recommended by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Like, health is more important than show-off and fashion trends.
The recommendation of doctors is illustrated by a special table, which shows the most common options for “decorating the face” with one or another beard, beard, mustache and mustache. Unacceptable types of vegetation are marked with red crosses - that is, the most dangerous from the point of view of the likelihood of infection. The green check marks correspond to a more or less acceptable coat.
Acceptable and unacceptable facial hair, according to the recommendations of American doctors.
Not too responsible media, publishing the table, assure that the CDC specially prepared it on the occasion of the spread of the Chinese coronavirus COVID-19. In fact, as reported by the ScienceAlert portal and the Daily Mail newspaper, the recommendations and the corresponding schedule appeared back in 2017 - that is, more than two years before the emergence of a new threat to human health. The goal was to explain why cautious men would be better off shaving. Because facial hair reduces the effectiveness of protective masks. It reduces for a very simple reason: because of the hair of the beard or long mustache, a protective mask or respirator does not fit well to the face. Gaps are formed between them, through which the infection easily penetrates. Studies show that it is much easier for her to penetrate into the body of a bearded man, than into a clean-shaven man. Sometimes it is a thousand times easier.
A mask on a bearded face is a useless contraption. The infection will make its way between the hairs.
In 2017, the CDC doctors were referring to influenza, SARS and other acute respiratory infections. Now they have not made public any new calls to shave their beards. The old ones just came in handy. It would be a sin not to take advantage of this. After all, it is not a specific infection. Talk about protection from her. And she is more effective in shaved in any case. Whether it's coronavirus or sore throat.
So maybe it's worth a shave? For prevention on a global scale. And after shaving, put on a mask. A respirator is even better.
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Respirator No. 95, doctors say, is a more effective protection against infection.
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Beard is also a breeding ground for bacteria
It must be understood that droplets from other people's noses and mouths accumulate on an unprotected beard. These droplets can be infected with anything - even coronaviruses. Thus, facial hair becomes a home for a variety of infectious agents. Of course, you can get rid of them by washing your face, washing your hands every time. And even more often. But bearded men are not too zealous in such hygienic procedures. And the beards are really dirty. This was confirmed last year by the doctors from the Swiss clinic Hirslanden (Hirslanden Clinic in Switzerland).
They were just going to find out if an MRI scan of a dog could be used to scan a person with the same scanner. Will the dog get it so dirty that the scanner will have to be intensively disinfected? Or will you even need to have a separate one - veterinary?
The doctors, led by Dr. Andreas Gutzeit (Professor Andreas Gutzeit), took microbial samples from 30 long-haired dogs, compared them with humans, which were obtained, including from 18 bearded men aged 18 to 76 years. It turned out that it was necessary to disinfect the scanners. But not after dogs, but after people. Specifically after the bearded men. Various bacteria abundantly nest in the "wool" of all. There were more of them than any single dog. At the same time, half of the microorganisms found in beards posed a serious health hazard.
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Pogonophobia - this is the name of the painful fear of the beard. It seems that the revived recommendations of American doctors, which are rapidly gaining popularity not only in social networks, and research like the Swiss, will exacerbate this phobia. And it may well come to the forced isolation of bearded men. Or before forced shaving them in the style of Peter the Great. After all, who knows, suddenly the virus is on the beards and is being transported around the world - those who have not yet shown signs of the disease are delivered.
Bacteria and viruses are comfortable in the beard.
VLADIMIR LAGOVSKY
And here you can see an interactive online map of the spread of coronavirus.