H5N1 and Dollar or death by your wallet
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howdeedoodee
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Wouldn't the person transmitting the virus have to cough, sneeze, or exhale on the currency just before a recepient touched the currency?
Is there any data about how long the virus stays alive on various surfaces apart from a warm host?
Is there any data about how long the virus stays alive on various surfaces apart from a warm host?
Ebb Tide
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Re: Chthonic
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=170804&page=5&pp=10&highlight=1918+mail
Wash your hands all you want -- that's a good plan. But don't forget to do it after each and every foreign item you touch once this particular influenza goes pandemic in your area as it lives for quite a long time outside of a body and can be found on all manner of objects. Who just touched that piece of mail, that newspaper, that doorknob, that dollar?
I think TPTB will take this kind of pretext to enforce the cashless society they are dreaming about. More control over the heard and taxes...less privacy for the shee..pe oples.
Ebb
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=170804&page=5&pp=10&highlight=1918+mail
Wash your hands all you want -- that's a good plan. But don't forget to do it after each and every foreign item you touch once this particular influenza goes pandemic in your area as it lives for quite a long time outside of a body and can be found on all manner of objects. Who just touched that piece of mail, that newspaper, that doorknob, that dollar?
I think TPTB will take this kind of pretext to enforce the cashless society they are dreaming about. More control over the heard and taxes...less privacy for the shee..pe oples.
Ebb
howdeedoodee
Veteran Member
Specifically, how long is...
Ebb Tide
Contributing Member
It could be a very long time
Here you go:
Only viruses that contain the tough protein coat, like ToMV, are likely to be able to retain all the information they need while being repeatedly frozen and defrosted. This rules out plenty of human viruses, but still leaves a few very nasty options including smallpox, polio, hepatitis A and, of course, influenza.
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=24&theme=&usrsess=1&id=91975
Here you go:
Only viruses that contain the tough protein coat, like ToMV, are likely to be able to retain all the information they need while being repeatedly frozen and defrosted. This rules out plenty of human viruses, but still leaves a few very nasty options including smallpox, polio, hepatitis A and, of course, influenza.
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=24&theme=&usrsess=1&id=91975
Ebb Tide
Contributing Member
Another specifique on H5N1
Recent article
" An easily transmitted strain of the virus could conceivably trigger a pandemic lasting two years and killing between 2 and 250 million people worldwide, according to estimates from the California Health Service.
http://www.thehour.com/288427783681224.bsp
Thursday morning. "Many of us are going to see a satellite broadcast about that this afternoon." That broadcast from the California Health Service explained the history of avian flu and the dangers it poses to people across the world. Avian flu, first identified in the early 20th century, now exists worldwide, primarily infecting birds. While human cases have occurred, almost all have been the result of contact between people and birds. Thus far, the human mortality rate for avian flu is approximately 50 percent, said Tom Skinner, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While there is a significant risk, the virus has yet to emerge in a form that could affect a global pandemic, Skinner explained. "What needs to happen for a pandemic of influenza to occur is you have to have a new or novel form of influenza occur," Skinner said. "We're seeing that with H5N1." But the virus must also become easily transmitted from person to person, which it has not, said Skinner. Viruses often mutate, however, and jump from one species to another. One way this could happen is through an intermediate species, Skinner said. "Pigs serve as a really good reservoir for both bird viruses and human
Ebb
Recent article
" An easily transmitted strain of the virus could conceivably trigger a pandemic lasting two years and killing between 2 and 250 million people worldwide, according to estimates from the California Health Service.
http://www.thehour.com/288427783681224.bsp
Thursday morning. "Many of us are going to see a satellite broadcast about that this afternoon." That broadcast from the California Health Service explained the history of avian flu and the dangers it poses to people across the world. Avian flu, first identified in the early 20th century, now exists worldwide, primarily infecting birds. While human cases have occurred, almost all have been the result of contact between people and birds. Thus far, the human mortality rate for avian flu is approximately 50 percent, said Tom Skinner, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While there is a significant risk, the virus has yet to emerge in a form that could affect a global pandemic, Skinner explained. "What needs to happen for a pandemic of influenza to occur is you have to have a new or novel form of influenza occur," Skinner said. "We're seeing that with H5N1." But the virus must also become easily transmitted from person to person, which it has not, said Skinner. Viruses often mutate, however, and jump from one species to another. One way this could happen is through an intermediate species, Skinner said. "Pigs serve as a really good reservoir for both bird viruses and human
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