Crazy Japanese...
(from 3news.co.nz)
Japanese menswear company Haruyama Trading has developed a suit that it claims can protect wearers from the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu.
The suit comes from Japan, and is aimed at the busy business man.
Eiji Hiratsuka, a 32-year-old Japanese businessman who came to buy the anti-flu suit, said, "I bought this suit to protect my new-born baby at home. My wife is worried about the swine flu as well so".
The swine flu suit is the brain child of Japanese menswear company Haruyama Trading.
They say the suit is coated with titanium dioxide- a chemical commonly used in toothpaste and cosmetics-that breaks down when reacting with light and supposedly kills the virus upon contact.
Shinto Hirata, vice director of merchandising at Haruyama, says the suit is proven to kill 40 percent of the latest flu virus in about three hours.
"If a person with the flu virus coughs, it might get on someone else's suit and from there, another person might get infected.
Small children might catch the virus after touching their father's suit. We came up with this idea to protect all businessmen and their families," says Shinto Hirata, vice director of merchandising at Haruyama.
Despite the new layer of protection, the suit seems fairly similar to others worn by Japanese white-collar workers. It comes in four colours and styles and costs around $US590.
The company says it will even retain its protective capability after being washed multiple times. Japan, like many other places in Asia, has been gripped by swine flu since its outbreak a year ago.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 340,000 people have been infected with H1N1 worldwide and the disease is responsible for 4,100 deaths.
Reuters
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