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Originally Posted by Steve Dallas
This is a VIRUS, not bacteria. Anti-bacterial soap and warm water will do NOTHING to prevent this. This is the kind of misinformation (such as a politician saying water kills it) that will continue to cause this to spread.
Bleach is what the health care workers use to kill this virus. Fire kills it. Wearing gloves can help minimize the risk if you're touching someone. Not warm water and soap. There's no 10 second rule with this virus. Contact with foreign matter (skin, sweat, feces, etc) can cause infection, and washing at that point does NOTHING.
Even scarier...every time this virus is spread to another person, it mutates. Most mutations are harmless. Some, not so much. Meaning...there is a possibility this could go airborne, and then we're really screwed. Small probability, however as more people get infected...that probability goes up.
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Really? Watched a segment on CNN that claims it would..
http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/healt...llas/16471377/
"Chlorine disinfection, heat, direct sunlight,
soaps and detergents can kill the Ebola virus."
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/27/world/...rus-explainer/
"The WHO says it is believed that fruit bats may be the natural host of the Ebola virus in Africa, passing on the virus to other animals.
Humans contract Ebola through contact with the bodily fluids of infected animals or the bodily fluids of infected humans.
MSF says that while the virus is believed to be able to survive for some days in liquid outside an infected organism, chlorine disinfection, heat, direct sunlight,
soaps and detergents can kill it."