This is Bellevue Hospital, New York City, dressed for Ebola in 2014.
Except for the addition of the goggles and color-coordinated running shoes, it could still be 1918.
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 ...
What Type of Soap Kills the Ebola Virus? Will Disinfectants & Hand Sanitizers Kill Ebola?
All this Ebola crap now in the sewers of NYC, with rats walking in it. It will be a miracle if NYC avoids a break out in the months and years to come.
Who knows. Not really a joking matter. Sweat could be the most likely means of ebola transmission if the virus actually does exist in sweat. It's right there on the surface of the skin and it seems it would merit more investigation as a means of transmission, particularly in view of evidence that the virus can live on surfaces for significant periods of time.
Boko Haram is right in Nigeria, and they have sworn allegiance to the Islamic State.
How hard would it be to obtain bags of infected medical waste, and smuggle some into the USA? Or infect would be “martyrs” to be sent to the USA as human ebola bombs?
Ebola viral load in sweat seems to show up in some patients and not others according to reports I’ve seen. When it does it would be a later-stage occurrence. Fortunately, infected people in this country would be unlikely to be running around too much when they get to that phase.
How about an ebola infected jihadist just riding the NYC subways, while smearing mucous all over the place? Or blowing himself up on a train?
Boko Haram in Nigeria is an affiliate of the Islamic State.
Unless they were a Nigerian Boko Haram “martyr” on a suicide mission to America.
Only? UV or lack of moisture would be the common environmental agents that deactivate Ebola virons and a lot of others.
Honestly, you think a terrorist in the throes of gut-spilling diarrhea and vomiting is going to be making a circuit of the continent?
Who said a circuit of the continent? But any jihadist willing to blow himself up to kill a handful of infidels will be thrilled at the chance to indirectly kill millions, just by riding a subway while infectious.
What makes you think they would NOT? They will behead children, rape little girls and boys, but suddenly being sick will stop them in their tracks? Really?
And that's really what separates ebola from other viruses that affect humans. We're so used to the common cold and flu's and our bodies being able to fight them off relatively easily due to the anti-bodies. No such thing with Ebola. It's "new" to almost all humans.
Thank you for the interesting article!
So hand sanitizers are somewhat discouraging to a virus, but they won’t kill a virus.
I note that the article lists “ResponseBeta” as an effective hand sanitizer, yet the product is NOT available in US :( Another website said they cannot ship to US.
Wonder if it is being held up by FDA? Anyone know?
Dirty doorknobs
This is Bellevue Hospital, New York City, dressed for Ebola in 2014.
Except for the addition of the goggles and color-coordinated running shoes, it could still be 1918.
That could be. I think the truth is medical authorities in the US don't really know all there is to know about ebola virus transmission because there have been so few domestic cases. And I don't know how thoroughly it might have been studied in West Africa.
It's just struck me as odd since ebola became a story in the US that sweat, certainly the most 'on the surface' bodily fluid, has received so little attention when transmission is discussed. But maybe it is a carrier of the virus only in latter stages of the disease.
Not very viable. If rats spread viruses that way, the city would have been overrun with many diseases by now.
Having it sweep through the prison population culling 70-80% of the inmates would be the only positive I can see in the virus.
A terrorist can spread the virus without being sick. All they need to know is how to keep it alive and spread it effectively.
It won’t spread through a prison unless they leave ebola victims inside to die and bleed on everyone. As a similar example it didn’t spread through the West Point slum when they closed it off. So they reopened, went in and removed the victims. It is pretty easy to control with that single step.
Sweat does not seem like a very viable vector http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/196/Supplement_2/S142.full although he sample size in this study was just 1 (one). The basic idea is the virus has to make it through the sweat gland from the blood to the sweat. A bleeding patient who is also sweaty would be deadly.
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