title: On the roads to H1N1 pandemic era: drive safe and fearless using colour-coded masks.
abstract: Notwithstanding the end of 2009 H1N1 pandemic, the threat for its revisit still persists and WHO has warned to remain vigilant. During that time the situation was more panicky than fatal. In this article, a suggestion to minimize the panic is provided by the usage of colour-coded masks and is proposed hereby as a "population segregation" approach in case of the revisit of H1N1 or similar threatening respiratory viral infections.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine & Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Kingdom of Bahrain. mohammeds@agu.edu.bh
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shahid
mesh_terms: D003116:Color; D006235:Hand Disinfection; D006801:Humans; D053118:Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008397:Masks; D058873:Pandemics / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010356:Patient Isolation