Posted on 10/27/2014 6:02:21 PM PDT by driftdiver
The number of confirmed Ebola cases passed the 10,000 mark over the weekend, despite efforts to curb its spread.
And while the disease typically dies on surfaces within hours, research has discovered it can survive for more than seven weeks under certain conditions.
During tests, the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) found that the Zaire strain will live on samples stored on glass at low temperatures for as long as 50 days.
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With this Administration failure is not just an option, it appears to be the goal.
I avoid all people who are sneezing and coughing - no matter where they are from.
BTTT!
Bull. Unless there are artificially created conditions no virus may live more than a few hours outside the cells of a carrier organism.
It is pure biology, it needs a carrier for nutrition and to procreate.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
There are many scientists who say you are wrong. From many sources.
Ping
Anybody with half a brain would know that. Ebola needs moisture, a glass surface and 50% humidity =moisture, a droplet of moisture is the size of a lake compared to the size of a virus. So “duh.” You want to worry, try not to worry as much about 10,000 dying from Ebola as 655,000 dying from malaria. (Thank you “Silent Spring”...erroneously banning DDT...another liberal global-warming-type good intention turned killer of humanity).
Must be nice to know everything and yet be so eloquent.
Most viruses cannot live more than a couple hours outside of a host regardless of the humidity. Filoviruses like ebola and marsberg are much hardier than viruses like the standard flu.
BTW, whether to be concerned about ebola is not a binary solution. Just because other diseases exist doesn’t mean we can safely ignore one with a 90% fatality rate.
Obama has survived on the face of the body politick since late 2008. In fact, he’s considered SO toxic that most Democrat politicians sterilize their phones for fear even chatting with him long distance could kill their reelection chances.
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