[himno hero]

Interesting thing is it will work mostly (and prosper) in equatorial third world unsanitary areas. Sure it has gone west. Soon it will be going into places like northern Africa and across to pakistan/

I am SURE freeze thaw cycles will inhibit it’s activities.

Do you want to invest in Siberian Real Estate?

(Maybe that is originally what put us whites in the northern areas?)

[Smokin' Joe]

If it is a virus, chances are cold preserves it.

[familyop]

"Interesting thing is it will work mostly (and prosper) in equatorial third world unsanitary areas...I am SURE freeze thaw cycles will inhibit it’s activities."

We can assure everyone that surfaces in convenience stores, restaurants, on fuel pump handles and around resorts (richer and therefore cleaner international visitors in those places) are quite sanitary in the U.S.A. As for temperatures, yes, we're home free...or being called home...or something.

Public Health Agency of Canada
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/ebola-eng.php

In another study, Ebolavirus dried onto glass, polymeric silicone rubber, or painted aluminum alloy is able to survive in the dark for several hours under ambient conditions (between 20 and 250C and 30–40% relative humidity) (amount of virus reduced to 37% after 15.4 hours), but is less stable than some other viral hemorrhagic fevers (Lassa) Footnote 53. When dried in tissue culture media onto glass and stored at 4 °C, Zaire ebolavirus survived for over 50 days

[At -70C, it can be preserved virtually indefinitely--more recently deleted from the site above.]

[ctdonath2]

Good thing we’re looking at an extra-cold winter here.