Strict isolation of households is among the tactics touted by scientists in a new study on how to combat a pandemic.

Isolation means separation, during the period of communicability, of a person infected with a communicable disease, in a place and under conditions so as to prevent direct or indirect transmission of an infectious agent to others. It may mean extremely limited contact with an ill person who is diagnosed with or suspected of having a communicable disease. The isolation can occur in a hospital setting in a negative airflow room (prevents potentially contaminated air from going back into the hospital) for very infectious airborne diseases.

Now this same hospital grade isolation room is available to protect your family. The solutions presented here will show you how to create an isolation room within your own home.

Isolation usually requires health care providers and visitors to use clothing protectors, masks or respirators, goggles and gloves as a means of protecting the visitors but also to protect the patient from exposure to new diseases that their weakened immune system may not be able to overcome.