"Women do not need to wear medical face masks to guard against swine flu if they instead wear a suitable veil, doctors say. “Women who wear the veil or cover their faces don’t need to wear protective masks as long as the veil is sterilized,” Dr. Dalal Namnagani, Consultant Pathologist and Director of the Blood Bank at King Abdul Aziz Specialist Hospital in Taif told Al-Watan newspaper
Thursday." (thanks Sana)