Posted on 10/27/2014 10:44:33 AM PDT by justlittleoleme
Ebola can survive on surfaces for almost TWO MONTHS: Tests reveal certain strains survive for weeks when stored at low temperatures
Research claims certain strains of Ebola can remain on surfaces for 50 days
It survived the longest on glass surfaces stored at 4° (39°F)
Centres for Disease Control and Prevention claims Ebola typically lives on a ‘dry’ surface for hours - including doorknobs and tables
But when stored in moist conditions such in mucus, this is extended
Survival time depends on the surface, and the room temperature
Virus can be killed using household bleach and people must come into direct contact with the sample to risk infection
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Just in time for the NY Marathon next weekend - all those runners coming in from plagued nations moving about the city at will, just great.
There is so many unknowns in which makes this even more
worrisome especially for those already with weak immune systems.
Why not? It’s survived in the White House for 6 or so years...
As with most virions, various types of energy imparted into the virion will kill it. The problem is how to deliver the energy to the fluids such that all the virions are effected.
UV, heat, and chemical mechanisms are available to kill ebola.
Take for an example, disinfection of eating utensils. They may be sterilized by 130degF hot water for one hour and 30% of the ebola will be killed; 2 hrs-50%; 5 hrs-no recorded trace of surviving ebola is known.
UV also disinfects, but that assumes the UV is impacting the cell/ebola encapsulated virion. If it is on the surface exposed to intense UV light, then the UV will kill it. If it is in sewage or untreated wastewater, which is cloudy or dark, then shadows of other particles will shielf some or most ebola containing portions from the UV light. So, UV might be OK to disinfect secondary or tertiary treated effluent out of a treatment plant, but all the sewer collection systems will remain contaminated with ebola.
Same for chemical treatment. Bleach diluted by 10x or 5x with water, can disinfect ebola tainted utensils, but only after being stirred for in a tub of the bleach solution for about 20 minutes to ensure all the bleach has made contact with the ebola containing cells.
Does anyone know how long ebola remains viable in a cadaver?
Is it hours, days, weeks?
Months.
Policy is to incinerate them ASAP.
Refrigerator door handle sounds like a good carrie. Then you pick up that apple pie...uncover it....stick your finger in it...and voila....you’re dead
Anybody else put their arms over the “protective” glass??? First time I’ve ever seen this!!
They hae learned a lo about this virus in the last few months. So it tells me all this BS about previous ebola studies was just to give the taxpaying public the impression they were on the case.
I wished the CDC had come clean and said we don' know much about this virus; because in the past it has so little effect on our citizenry , and that we devoted research dollars to other viruses that are prevelant here in the United States. Now we have to play catch up.
The CDC didn't do that, and instead gave the impression they knew what they were talking about while giving out some misinformation on ebola. -Tom
Interesting that he tied in the dead microbiologists and the elites plan to weaponize and use Ebola as a means to depopulate the planet.
I had forgotten about all the dead microbiologists. I heard the other day the number is now close to 300. That just seems so high but I can't find current information on them.
It is said some were on the plane that went down in the Ukraine.
Standing back at all the pieces, it's all very eerie. Ofcourse, many can not and are not able to believe such evil exists.
but they can tell you all you need to know about fat lesbians
http://www.redstate.com/2014/10/13/fat-lesbians-got-all-the-ebola-dollars-but-blame-the-gop/
Community showers, dining, toilets, laundry, bedding, and so on, not to mention what goes on sexually? Ebola showing up in a prison must be an immediate legal nightmare to the state. Release those unaffected after a quarantine period? Transfer them to another prison leaving the existing one useless? Inmates throwing urine, spit, and feces at staff?
It will be complete chaos. It will be happening soon. Obama will see to it.
The answer of months pertains to concentrations and reportable tests.
It only takes 3-10 virions to infect a person. A droplet of blood from a recently deceased corpse from ebola may have around 3.2 million virons in each drop of blood.
Statistically, about 10,000 to 100,000 of the virions of the 3.2 mil/drop have replicated the virion sufficiently to nearly explode and remain very infectious.
Now compare this to an ebola patient, on the other side of the Emergency Room, who isn’t touching you, nor breathing on you, but might exhale/sneeze such that statistically a handful of virions get caught up in suspension in the HVAC system. It only takes 3-10 to cause your infection, and maybe they don’t make it to you, or maybe they land elsewhere. There’s a good chance they won’t survive, but then again, for good public hygiene, policies should be enacted to reduce the natural chance of transmitting the disease instead of promoting its dispersion.
The same infection rates happen with other viral infections, with the glaring difference that ebola tends to be fatal.
Until the population develops antibodies for the infection, the risk of pandemic remains.
Our stomachs have been queasy and we are leery. No more eating out until next year some time...maybe April.
A terrorist could cause a pandemic with an ebola infected cadaver and getting it into to food supply such as at a restaurant.
So mucous covered counter tops not good? Lysol should see a surge in stocks.
Haven’t dined at a Cannibal restaurant lately... ;-)
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