On Saturday, October 4, 2014 12:34:07 PM UTC-7, Cathal Garvey wrote:
-- IIRC, Ebola is enveloped. Usually, this means "highly susceptible to
solvents and detergents", so I wonder if the real area worth addressing
is trivial spray-down equipment?
That is, rather than changing suits between patients and isolation
units, why not design suits to be extremely efficiently spray-able
(highly wetting), and design an easily DIYable sprayer rig for cheap
detergent or alcohol?
They are already doing tons of spraying in all areas that ebola patients have passed through. Not sure exactly what they are spraying - bleach? Also not sure whether lack of availability of the sprayers and/or the chemical to be sprayed is a significant issue.
An idea that was sparked by an off-hand comment on - I think - This Week in Virology: part of the reason why some viruses don't survive in aerosols is that a rapidly drying droplet creases a high-salt environment. So could some of these viruses be defeated by a simple salt spray? If so, that is potentially a treatment that even people in remote villages could use to reduce the risk of infection.
Patrik
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