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Ebola Virus Is More Likely to Spread through Aerosols – and Survive Longer – When It’s Cold
A British government defense lab finds that Ebola can last up to 50 days in the cold.
The Daily Mail reports:
The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) found that the Zaire strain [of Ebola] will live on samples stored on glass at low temperatures for as long as 50 days.

The left-hand charts plot survival rates of Zaire strain of Ebola (Zebov) and Lake Victoria marburgvirus (Marv) on glass (a) and plastic (b) at 4° (39°F) over 14 days. The right-hand charts reveal the survival rate under the same conditions over 50 days. Both viruses survived for 26 days, and Ebola was extracted after 50 days.
The tests were initially carried out by researchers from DSTL before the current outbreak, in 2010, but the strain investigated is one of five that is still infecting people globally.
The findings are also quoted in advice from the Public Agency of Health in Canada.
Temperatures of 39°F or colder are common in the U.S., Canada and much of Europe during the winter.
Top Ebola scientists also say that the virus is more likely to be spread by aerosol in cold, dry conditions than in hot, humid weather.
(Given that sneeze droplets can travel 20 feet, that’s nothing to sneeze at.)
Indeed, the British defense study cited above also found:
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All three filoviruses under investigation [Ebola is a type of filovirus] could be detected after 90 min in a dynamic aerosol (Fig. 4a)
In other words – even after 90 minutes – Ebola could survive suspended in aerosols if the temperature is chilly.
The amount of Ebola which survives in aerosol obviously diminishes with time:
However, since MIT has recently shown that sneeze droplets travel much farther than previously thought – and can enter into ventilation systems – Ebola protocols need to take these realities into account.
This is the first time that Ebola has spread out of West Africa to cooler, dryer nations … so we can’t assume that what works in the hotzone will work here.
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Do you realize that makes the survivors human bio-labs?
Plasma and fluids is a great treatment regime. Raises the survival rate by quite a bit.
Only problem will be if there ends up being too many cases to properly house patients and process and administer the plasma with all of the panic and disruption that a larger number of cases would surely bring.
On a related note, my understanding is that this virus attacks the lining of blood vessels causing them to deteriorate. For these survivors, are there any lasting issues even after the virus has been eliminated? They look pretty healthy in the photos.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this is nothing to be worried about, I'm just questioning whether it is going to be as big a problem here in the US where hygiene and living conditions are much better.
It's like we either get 'the sky is falling, we're all gonna die' or the politicians saying 'meh, we have it under control'.
I just wonder if we are only hearing of these recovered folks and not about newly infected folks.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200712150027.html
"Many are still suffering from headaches, general body pains, general weakness, poor vision and reduced sexual abilities."
Never had Ebola, but that sure describes my life these days.
Maybe it's time they talked to their Doctors about Cialis?
Yeah, that kind of worries me about as much as contracting it - lifelong issues from it. Like scarlet fever impacting hearts and polio leaving paralysis.
But, looks like the pols are bound and determined to bring it to a neighborhood near you by any means necessary.
Of course, dear Dexter. We know they want to save the Earth by propagating the very defense Mother Earth has "cooked up" to eliminate the infection of Humans.
It is all so very clear.
What medicines were they treated with? Are those medicines available to the general public?
I think a very limited supply of the Canadian drug was available. PBS I think indicated this but can't remember the show I saw.
The drug made in Winnepeg and then sidelined and licenced out. Think Health Canada has the patent.
What is going into clinical trials is new manufacture of the same drug.
Don't know, and don't know, but why wouldn't they be made available if there was an outbreak? Seeing these folks recover raises the expectations of a successful fight against the disease, true?
There are indications that those who have had ebola will now have lifelong difficulties with their health. After, for instance, your kidneys have been ransacked by ebola, how do they function? Do they have full functioning? Will it continue for the rest of your life? What about your lungs...? There are also indicators, from numerous sources, the viruses are notorious for their ability to reconstitute themselves, long after they should have been "null and void," as it were. This is why the CDC went nuts when they heard of a small piece of a smallpox blanket in some obscure museum out west a while back, and promptly sent some people out to bring it back to the CDC.
Apocalyptic scenarios render the cockroach as the "last survivor," but the reality is that it will always be the virus. Those suckers just want to live, and rise again long after you are sure they are done for. Did see a guy dressing for going into the ebola wards in Africa (quite a while back) and he had rubbed iodine all over his hands and up his forearms before putting on the two layers of gloves.
The height of arrogance is to believe, as Oboma and Friden propagandize, that western civilizations can "defeat" anything. Didn't defeat the Viet Cong; Didn't defeat the muslims who have arisen as ISIS; polio is often said to be on the verge of being defeated but it lives in the soil in many places in Africa, and there is no way they can ever track down all the viruses in that soil.
Thank goodnes for 'global warming'; otherwise, we could be in for some real trouble. Sarc. off.
Don't forget Fukushima!
We've global warming to cook us, Fukushima to fry us & ebola to puree us.
Happy daze!
GW you are a useful idiot gleefully participating in this distraction du jour. Shame on you.
8 more people might get it! Do you know what this means? Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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