Germ-killing nose-wiper attaches to kids' sleeves

Retired nurse anesthetist Michele Strocel from Genesee County's Fenton Township, about 45 miles northwest of Detroit, has worked for more than two years on a personal respiratory hygiene product that can stick to your shirt sleeve or shoulder to capture those yuckies from your nose when you sneeze and mouth when you cough.

It's called the CoughCover.

Strocel, 62, said the disposable, five-layered pieces of a special fabric are about 3.5 inches by 5 inches in size and can help prevent spreading cold and flu viruses.



Why not just use a tissue?

The CoughCover can be used hands-free and for long periods of time, the product's Website says.

With its patent pending, the CoughCover soon will make its public debut at Flint Township's Genesee Valley Center. Strocel expects by mid-February to set up a mall kiosk to offer samples of the CoughCover and to take orders.