FREE SAFETY DATA SHEET INDEX - Ebola virus (Only the facts!)

http://www.msdsonline.com/resources/msds-resources/free-safety-data-sheet-index/ebola-virus.aspx ^ | October 8, 2014 | MSDS Online

[Chgogal]

FYI

[21twelve]

Thanks for the info. Whenever I see a MSDS it is for a chemical. As in if you have it at your business, shipping it, etc.

“I’m sorry sir, you have Ebola but not an MSDS? That is an OSHA violation and I’ll have to write you up.”

[Chgogal]

More information for health care workers.

http://www.msdsonline.com/blog/2014/10/08/ebola-awareness-underscores-need-for-adequate-safety-training

Bottom line - Ebola is categorized as Risk Group 4 which means the US can NOT handle a “wide spread” epidemic. Period.

[21twelve]

“..and respiratory protection...”

Kind of open-ended on that one. Real MSDS sheets have specific requirements of what types of filters, etc. are needed.

[Chgogal]

This site is easy to read. Here is an gov site and it is more difficult but says the same stuff but is no where as clear.

http://www.phe.gov/s3/faqs/Pages/biosafety.aspx

[Chgogal]

I found this to be very interesting:

SURVIVAL OUTSIDE HOST: The virus can survive in liquid or dried material for a number of days (23). Infectivity is found to be stable at room temperature or at 4°C for several days, and indefinitely stable at -70°C (6, 20). Infectivity can be preserved by lyophilisation.

[Chgogal]

This was written for simple minded people like me. You have to login for the real technical stuff.

[blondee123]

Baghdad Obola would deny it’s a risk 4.

[21twelve]

I’ll stick with this as I am simple-minded as well.

I’m pretty sure the “...number of days (23)”; the (23) refers to a cited reference, and not the number of days it can survive outside the host. In some cases (dry??) it can survive many hours. In other cases (moist, wet?) in can last up to 6 days.

[Chgogal]

I wasn’t precise. The temperatures impressed me.

[21twelve]

“The temperatures impressed me.”

I shop at the thrift stores and put stuff in a bag and then in my freezer for a couple of days (kills lice, bedbugs, etc.)

Pretty sure mine doesn’t get down to -70 C!

[Eagles6]

Says susceptible to sodium hypochlorite. Wonder if calcium hypochlorite is good too? Lot of us have it for water disinfection. Also wonder about household bleach. The sodium is a lot harder to get and use I think.

[meadsjn]

Says susceptible to sodium hypochlorite.

Household bleach (Wal-Mart Great Value brand) is sodium hypochlorite 8.25%.

Bleach will become the scent of the future.

[ctdonath2]

Worth repeating:

“SURVIVAL OUTSIDE HOST: The virus can survive in liquid or dried material for a number of days (23).”

Wait, what? Whither “bodily fluids only”?

[PistolPaknMama]

This is a family website. Watch your language.

[SisterK]

Thank you for posting.
“The virus can survive in liquid or dried material for a number of days (23).”
Or must be boiled for 5 minutes to kill virus.

[SisterK]

uhm...I HOPE 23 is a cited footnote

[DocRock]

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[Covenantor]

Household bleach (Wal-Mart Great Value brand) is sodium hypochlorite 8.25%.

Common white vinegar = acetic acid 3%, pH 2.5 available cheap in gallon jugs