Plants-Clean Air INSIDE Your Home in an Emergency

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Plants-Clean Air INSIDE Your Home in an Emergency

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Plants-Helping Keep Your INSIDE Air Clean

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Indoor Air Quality: Plants That Can Save Us
http://disastermedicine-christine.blogspot.com/2009/07/indoor-air-quality-plants-that-can-save.html

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Assuming that your house is still standing after a disaster and the authorities haven't attempted to evacuate you, the best thing for you to do is to stay indoors with your air vents sealed.

For instance, in the event of an earthquake, a good amount of dust is stirred up into the air, bringing with it a number of soil fungi that have been shown to cause lung infections in earthquake survivors, such as coccidioidomycosis immitis which is the cause of San Joaquin Valley Fever.

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In the event of a nuclear fallout, there is the radiation factor. No biggy, right? Well, that's because you already know that it is best to go into your basement and seal off any openings to the outside in your home and stay down there for at least 3 weeks. (Note: Earthquake and Nuclear preparedness and disaster response will be discussed in more detail in a later post.)

So how do you survive in an air tight environment for a few weeks? Yep, you guessed it: Plants! (Continued at link, above!)
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