Health and Safety

Cleaning Indoor Air

With hideous smog (aka "haze") currently prevailing in Hong Kong, just done some reading around on Internet re possible ways to clean the air, somewhat, indoors.

Prompted partly by reading info such as: 'According to an article in "Heart," the journal of the British Cardiac Society: "Epidemiology has clearly shown a link between increases in particulate air pollution and deaths and admissions caused by heart failure, myocardial infarction [heart attack] and arrhythmia."', from a CNN item, which I posted to thread on forum here: Hong Kong Suffers Chronic Air Pollution.

It seems there may be two ways to reduce indoor pollution: using filters/purifiers (machines), and using houseplants (which can act as natural filters/purifiers).

Submitted by DocMartin on 22 October 2006 - 10:32am

Mosquitoes in Hong Kong

For most of my time in Hong Kong, mosquitoes have been pretty much just an irritant - especially from spring to autumn, in and near woodland, and worst around dusk. But lately, we've seen some increase in two mosquito-borne diseases: dengue fever, and Japanese encaphalitis. Especially as the latter has a high fatality rate, this makes mosquitoes here potentially a good deal worse than pesky little things that make you itch.

BUT - right now - neither are mosquitoes a great threat; we've had few cases of dengue, and only a handful of encephalitis (three in 2004).

Submitted by DocMartin on 5 July 2004 - 10:10am