In-kind donations from corporations with local offices include 1,200 respirators and 1,300 surgical masks from Lumileds; 2,000 medical-grade hazmat suits for hospital personnel from KLA ...

A 1619 outbreak of plague in France, rooted largely in Paris, led to the first medical mask. As the disease killed some 80 percent of those it afflicted, French doctor Charles De Lorme invented an ...

The suits will replace eight 11-year-old hazmat outfits that are a year past their expiration dates, although they’re still usable by the Altoona Fire Department, which provides hazmat services ...