Check #15
I love the quote that this is a “wimpy” virus *rolls eyes*. This is another lapse in medical community judgement regarding the type of vocabulary used when communicating to the public about the sustainability of this virus to hold up against various environmental factors/pressures. One would say that Bacillus anthracis is not a “wimpy” microbe b/c it can “hibernate” in spore form under extreme environmental factors/pressures over years and even decades. However, the Ebola virus does not have this capability thus it being labeled as “wimpy”. This is so dangerously misleading b/c this virus can “live” outside of its host for prolonged periods of time in a microbial sense. Granted UV light is a death sentence for this microbe as it is for so many other various other microbes but to say that the Ebola virus is “wimpy” is such an egregious medical semantical error when speaking to laymen about the virulent nature of this disease.