Posted on 03/27/2020 4:54:58 PM PDT by nicollo
2018 Flu Season PBS article:
Tis the season for gathering with friends and family to share latkes and gingerbread, but also for those dreaded colds and bouts of the flu.
As temperatures drop, both illnesses start to tick up, as does the risk of taking you, your co-workers and loved ones down one-by-one. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate the average person gets two to three colds per year mostly in the winter and spring. The country as a whole sees 9.3 to 49 million cases of the flu annually.
Cold and flu viruses, despite their ferocity inside our warm bodies, are structurally wimpy.
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(Excerpt) Read more at pbs.org ...
Boric Acid mixed with Chicken/berger Grease and or sugar.
Some ants like either so I plant both
They all seem to like both
Do others at the gym object to the spray-down?
And here I thought it was the habaneros I had been chopping.
I dont go in the “Gym” I swim so,Dont,care
Most are pigs
Like the Band aid in a locker the day b4 they closed and they one in the pool
Dont ues the gym, only swim
That area is filthy in good times
...if its not airborne.
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Not exactly, in that it’s not a pneumonic virus. Not a doctor, but you still need close contact and an enclosed space for human-to-human transmission through the air (as opposed to droplet transmission due to sneezing/coughing with velocity and then entering the body via mucus membranes which is aerosol transmission, as in the case of COVID 19).
BUT: viruses and bacteria are prevalent in clouds in the troposhere and that way they travel from one place to another, often long distances, before dropping down. Most of the viruses (which are fragile, remember) probably don’t retain infectiousness after a trip on the winds.
BUT: likely some can persist on migratory birds. If the birds already have an avian virus, perhaps (IDK this for sure)the viruses can combine within the duck or goose. I have heard of this as a way for an avian virus to be transmitted to swine, allowing combinations/mutations.
The point is: this probably happens all the time and always has and is one way animal viruses make the jump between species.
Maybe there are veterinarians here who can comment. This is just my uneducated WAG informed by superficial reading.
We have never lived on a safe planet. Humans have evolved alongside all these microorganisms. Microorganisms are the largest class of organisms on this planet and remember, the human body contains trillions of bacteria, most of them beneficial or benign. If you obsess on it, you’ll go crazy.
Thats the video I linked.
Because common colds are caused by a plethora of viruses, research on surface infectious rates are harder to nail down. In general, most are no longer dangerous after 24 hours, and their ability to infect dissipates faster on porous materials like facial tissues.
Whats the best surface for killing viruses? Our skin. In the cases of both flu and cold-causing viruses, infectious particles on our hands are usually gone after 20 minutes.
Between its pH and its porous nature, our bodys natural barrier to the word does a great job at killing viruses, Greatorex explained. Our hands are quite antimicrobial themselves, she said. They have their own bacteria that live on them no matter how clean you are and they dont actually harbour viruses that well.
Chlorine, hydrogen peroxide, soaps, detergents or alcohol-based gels all disrupt the capsules of the viruses, and theyre no longer capable of being infectious, Auwaerter said. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-long-do-cold-and-flu-viruses-stay-contagious-on-public-surfaces
And see https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(20)30046-3/fulltext
Yep - being detectable and being viable are two different things...a couple weeks ago a doctor was saying that, depending on the surface, the virus could be detected for times between a couple hours and 3 days....but the longest outside parameter for even the longer one was 9 hours - and way less for the others...so for most of us, 1-2 hours would probably be the longest - and destroying the outer shell is as simple as adding a hand soap mixture into the mix...so the length of the “Happy Birthday” song would be long enough to wash your hands and know they were safe...
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