'Clever' Japan firm donates high-tech masks for Ebola fight
Tokyo (AFP) - A little-known Japanese company has donated 10,000 high-tech face masks to several Ebola-hit African nations and says it is now getting calls from New York City, which confirmed its first case of the virus Thursday.
Clever, a maker of air filters, said it is sending thousands of the $75 masks for use by doctors and other health professionals in Guinea, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Clever says its Pittarich mask -- originally developed for the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, known as the MERS -- is coated in chemicals that kill 99 percent of viruses, including Ebola, when they come into contact with the specialised device.
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