Posted on 10/16/2014 12:09:10 AM PDT by Chgogal
RISK GROUP CLASSIFICATION: Risk Group 4 (38).
CONTAINMENT REQUIREMENTS: Containment Level 4 facilities, equipment, and operational practices for work involving infectious or potentially infectious materials, animals, and cultures.
PROTECTIVE CLOTHING: Personnel entering the laboratory must remove street clothing, including undergarments, and jewellery, and change into dedicated laboratory clothing and shoes, or don full coverage protective clothing (i.e., completely covering all street clothing). Additional protection may be worn over laboratory clothing when infectious materials are directly handled, such as solid-front gowns with tight fitting wrists, gloves, and respiratory protection. Eye protection must be used where there is a known or potential risk of exposure to splashes (39).
OTHER PRECAUTIONS: All activities with infectious material should be conducted in a biological safety cabinet (BSC) in combination with a positive pressure suit, or within a class III BSC line. Centrifugation of infected materials must be carried out in closed containers placed in sealed safety cups, or in rotors that are unloaded in a biological safety cabinet. The integrity of positive pressure suits must be routinely checked for leaks. The use of needles, syringes, and other sharp objects should be strictly limited. Open wounds, cuts, scratches, and grazes should be covered with waterproof dressings. Additional precautions should be considered with work involving animal activities (39).
SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DISINFECTANTS: Ebola virus is susceptible to sodium hypochlorite, lipid solvents, phenolic disinfectants, peracetic acid, methyl alcohol, ether, sodium deoxycholate, 2% glutaraldehyde, 0.25% Triton X-100, β-propiolactone, 3% acetic acid (pH 2.5), formaldehyde and paraformaldehyde, and detergents such as SDS (20, 21, 31-34).
PHYSICAL INACTIVATION: Ebola are moderately thermolabile and can be inactivated by heating for 30 minutes to 60 minutes at 60ºC, boiling for 5 minutes, gamma irradiation (1.2 x106 rads to 1.27 x106 rads), and/or UV radiation (3, 6, 20, 32, 33).
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.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the Bring Out Your Dead ping list (formerly the Ebola ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the Bring Out Your Dead threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Thank you Folks, you answered a few of my tribe’s questions!
Thanks. Yeah, time to buy Chlorox stocks, financial and physical.
So, common white vinegar will kill it as good as bleach will? Thanks.
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“So, common white vinegar will kill it as good as bleach will? Thanks.”
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Make sure it’s the 3% right solution as printed. And it needs some time, longer than a mere swipe. On your person do the handwash thing, hum or singing “Happy Birthday” twice. Just a timing device, do it in your mind.
On furniture keep in mind that it is a mild acid and the prolonged dampening of surfaces will attack many wood finishes. Floor tile not a problem.
MSDS here.
Agree. I’ve been making my own bleach wipes. I don’t even think the Clorox brand wipes have bleach in them. So, I make my own, every few days, as needed.
Just checked...there’s NOT any bleach, in Clorox wipes....
Water
Substrate
Hexoxyethanol
Alkyl C12-18 Dimethylbenzyl Ammonium Chloride
Alkyl C12-14 Dimethylethylbenzyl Ammonium Chloride
C12-14 Alcohols Ethoxylated Propoxylated
Citric Acid
Fragrance
Isopropanol
Sodium Bicarbonate
See post #14 for Clorox %.
See post number 27 for the MSDS issued by The Clorox Company.
Please feel free to actually READ said MSDS.
Thanks.
See post #27 (AGAIN) for Clorox Company MSDS.
Clorox Bleach Wipes are 0.1-1% NaClO. Clorox Disinfecting Wipes contain no NaClO.
Thanks. Good to know.
Thanks. Good info.
Clorox Bleach Wipes are 0.1-1% NaClO.
I posted the ingredients for their wipes, up thread. They also make a “Professional” wipe that contains hydrogen peroxide....but, no bleach. Probably because the bleach dissipates too quickly?
Go to the link I provided in #27. You do that by clicking your mouse on the word “here” in that post.
Scroll down until you see the word “Wipes” in a list with an arrow to its left. Click your mouse on the word “Wipes”. This will open a detailed list.
Look for the words “Clorox Bleach Wipes” in the detailed list. Click your mouse on them. This will open the MSDS for “Clorox Bleach Wipes” ... and you’ll see that they do indeed contain sodium hypochlorite CAS # 7681-52-9.
I hope this helps.
The product is for sale from several on-line vendors, and I have also seen it at health-care shops in VA and WV. I have NOT seen them in Wal*Mart, grocery stores, etc.
Forgive my mistake of not mention bleach dilution ratio.
Bleach 1 part to 5 to 10 parts water has been detailed published range of usaable dilution.
Mix it fresh as needed.
I keep an 1:8 ratio of bleach to water in a used kitchen detergent bottle for cleanup after dogs outings.
Jane Long: I shy away from any mixes that might involve both Ammonia and Chlorine/Chloride. I somehow missed high-school and college chemistry, and mixes of these two types of liquids occasionally cause people to keel over dead.
I put a band of masking tape around all my spray bottle with the contents and percentage.
One for vinegar/water 50%; one for Chlorine/water 1:10; etc.
Lol...thanks for the detailed instructions.
I went straight to the source...and called the Clorox company.
They confirmed that they DO NOT make ANY wipe products that contain bleach. They also confirmed the reason ... bleach dissipates too quickly, for packaged wipes.
She didn’t have an answer as to why their MSDS for their wipes lists Sodium hypochlorite 0.1 - 1%, as an ingredient.
Hope this helps.
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