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Published: July 15, 2008
Strange but true: Test clears air about sneezing into mask
Q :It's a problem faced by baseball catchers, welders and surgeons: How do you sneeze with a mask covering your face?
A :Catchers and welders only have to deal with the unpleasant bounce-back, but surgeons have to worry about spraying multitudinous microbes directly into the open wound they've created, says Steve Mirsky in Scientific American magazine. So, how do you avoid an uh-oh following an achoo? As repor...
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