This is so much WORSE than anybody first thought.
Cold, in and of itself, does not kill a virus strain. Only chemical or possibly biological agents can.
And there is not enough Clorox in the world to do that. At least, not without causing a great deal of collateral damage just from its use.
As anybody who has been paying attention knows, the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918 provides many lessons that apply equally well here today.
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
Only? UV or lack of moisture would be the common environmental agents that deactivate Ebola virons and a lot of others.