2nd person in U.S. tests positive for Ebola

Sorry should have put this in another thread..

Health workers threaten to stay away from work on Monday, unless government agrees to hike their hazard pay.

Nurses and medical workers in Liberia are threatening to go on strike over a pay dispute, a move that could deliver a serious blow to the fight against Ebola which has killed hundreds in the west African country.

Members of Liberia's National Health Workers Association said they would not report for work on Monday unless a demand for an increase in hazard pay was met.

The association said on Sunday it was calling for hazard pay to be increased by around $200, from what is currently less than $500. The average Liberian health worker's base salary is between $200 and $300.

[link to www.aljazeera.com]

Elver wrote: Albert wrote: If protocol was breached while taking off the suit, that only supports that the virus can survive outside the host on various surfaces/suits for awhile and perhaps an hour or so.  That's a pretty good secondary mode.  I just posted the other day that Ebola can survive on surfaces for up to 6 days under perfect conditions. They didn't define "perfect conditions".

In a cold climate or under 32 degrees it can survive for weeks.   An imported case to the wrong spot over the next couple months and it will be a game changer for outbreaks. 

SURVIVAL OUTSIDE HOST: Filoviruses have been reported capable to survive for weeks in blood and can also survive on contaminated surfaces, particularly at low temperatures (4°C) ^{Footnote 52 Footnote 61}. One study could not recover any Ebolavirus from experimentally contaminated surfaces (plastic, metal or glass) at room temperature ^{Footnote 61}.  In another study, Ebolavirus dried onto glass, polymeric silicone rubber, or painted aluminum alloy is able to survive in the dark for several hours under ambient conditions (between 20 and 250C and 30–40% relative humidity) (amount of virus reduced to 37% after 15.4 hours), but is less stable than some other viral hemorrhagic fevers (Lassa) ^{Footnote 53}. When dried in tissue culture media onto glass and stored at 4 °C, Zaire ebolavirus survived for over 50 days ^{Footnote 61}. This information is based on experimental findings only and not based on observations in nature. This information is intended to be used to support local risk assessments in a laboratory setting.