hazmat suit

今日はThe Japan Times April 23の 'Recovered, almost: China’s early patients unable to shed coronavirus' と題された記事にあった単語を覚えたいと思います。
Wuhan, China ? Dressed in a hazmat suit, two masks and a face shield, Du Mingjun knocked on the mahogany door of a flat in a suburban district of Wuhan on a recent morning.
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Patients need to stay at the center for at least 28 days and obtain two negative results before being allowed to leave. Patients are isolated in individual rooms they said were paid for by the government.
COVID-19 virusは本当にしつこい様です。記事中にある "hazmat suit" は、最近ニュースでよく見かける、細菌やウィルスから完全に身を守るための医療用の防護服を示していると思います。 "hazmat" を辞書で見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Dangerous substances; hazardous material: as modifier ‘hazmat shipments’

・Collins Dictionary: substances that pose a danger to public health: (as modifier)
a hazmat suit

・Wiktionary: Often used attributively, as in the term hazmat suit, the term hazmat (also capitalized as HAZMAT or hyphenated as Haz-Mat) is chiefly used in the US. The equivalent term in the rest of the English-speaking world is dangerous goods.
"hazardous material" が語源だと分かると簡単に覚えられますね。