Ebola fear causes gas mask sales surge
Fears over Ebola has led to increased demand for protective suits and gas masks, according to the owner of a firm that sells survivalist equipment.
Lincoln Miles, from Eynesbury in Cambridgeshire, said he sold about 50 "Ebola kits" last week from his business in Roxton, Bedfordshire.
He says he normally has orders for about five a week.
But a Cambridge University virologist said such equipment in untrained hands was unlikely to be reliable.
Mr Miles said: "We're selling out of NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) suits and gas masks which both work together to protect against Ebola and other viruses.
"We went from about five a week to about 50 or 60 a week. Before they're on the shelf, they're out the door."
Most of he kits were being ordered by people in the UK, Mr Miles said.
(continued, got my surgical masks in the summer before they sell out....)
