State attorney general wants to stop ashes of Ebola victim's belongings from being brought to Louisi
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[quote]Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell said late Sunday that he will seek a temporary restraining order to stop the incinerated belongings of Dallas Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan from being brought to a Louisiana landfill.
However, there is no evidence that this would spread the dreaded disease.
The items include linens, carpets and bedding from Duncan's apartment. Six truckloads of the "potential Ebola-contaminated material" were burned at a facility in Port Arthur, Texas, on Friday, Caldwell said in a statement.
The ashes are planned to be brought to a hazardous-waste landfill in Louisiana, but Caldwell is trying to stop that from happening.
His office is completing an application to seek a temporary restraining order to prevent the material from being brought to the landfill, and expects to file it Monday morning. The attorney general's office is also sending a "demand letter" to Texas and federal officials, as well as private contractors who are involved, requesting additional information.[/quote]
[url]http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/10/louisiana_attorney_general_wan.html[/url]
The virus is pretty much dead when it goes into a furnace, you idiot.
This is dumb as hell. I was reading some comments of these articles on FB and it seemed there were like... 3 people at most who understood that there was no way Ebola could survive a goddamn [i]incinerator[/i].
And even then, it's still being handled as hazardous waste so there would be even LESS of a chance of something happening.
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Does this guy expect people to be digging through a hazardous waste dump?
These people must think Ebola is like radiation or something.
If we ever find a strain of Ebola that can survive incineration, we'll be dead no matter what anyway.
This is ridiculous.
Hell, forget just Ebola. Are there any viruses, bacteria or the like that could survive that? Those sort of incinerators aren't just burning at a couple of hundred of degrees either.
[QUOTE=Ogopogo;46221139]Hell, forget just Ebola. Are there any viruses, bacteria or the like that could survive that? Those sort of incinerators aren't just burning at a couple of hundred of degrees either.[/QUOTE]
Nope, its like throwing people into a volcano and expecting them to live.
Oh my god
This is like, elementary school biology
Holy fucking shit people are [I]represented[/I] by fucking idiots.
This is the end result of fucking with the biology, and more broadly, the science curriculum at schools.
How can people be this stupid?
[QUOTE=Ogopogo;46221139]Hell, forget just Ebola. Are there any viruses, bacteria or the like that could survive that? Those sort of incinerators aren't just burning at a couple of hundred of degrees either.[/QUOTE]
Actually, yes. They're called crenarchaeota, built to survive extreme temperatures. Still not technically a bacteria though so guy in OP has no idea what he's talking about.
All it takes is 75°c. An incinerator runs at something more like 1000°c.
[QUOTE=SexualShark;46220931][url]http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/10/louisiana_attorney_general_wan.html[/url]
The virus is pretty much dead when it goes into a furnace, you idiot.[/QUOTE]
No they aren't! They will wake up in a form of snake-like ash monster and lunge themselves at your face so they take over and contaminate you for further spread!
[QUOTE=TurtleeyFP;46221562]Actually, yes. They're called crenarchaeota, built to survive extreme temperatures. Still not technically a bacteria though so guy in OP has no idea what he's talking about.[/QUOTE]
Even thermophilic microorganisms can only survive in temperatures up to about 120 °C (252 °F) - incinerators have temperatures in the 700-800 °C range, if not higher. Fire is remarkably effective at killing stuff.
[QUOTE=Electrocuter;46221072]These people must think Ebola is like radiation or something.[/QUOTE]
No because if they did they would have no problem letting them dump it anywhere.
Make no eye contact with victims to avoid being infected.
[QUOTE=proch;46221305]Oh my god
This is like, elementary school biology
Holy fucking shit people are [I]represented[/I] by fucking idiots.[/QUOTE]
hope you are enjoying the greatest circus america has to offer
sprinkle some holy water on that crap and it gonna be all good
maybe a prayer or two just to be sure
[editline]13th October 2014[/editline]
don't forget to add "please don't let ebola get me" to the this year's letter to santa
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;46221771]sprinkle some holy water on that crap and it gonna be all good
maybe a prayer or two just to be sure
[editline]13th October 2014[/editline]
don't forget to add "please don't let ebola get me" to the this year's letter to santa[/QUOTE]
Throw them over the edge of the universe.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;46221771]sprinkle some holy water on that crap and it gonna be all good
maybe a prayer or two just to be sure
[editline]13th October 2014[/editline]
don't forget to add "please don't let ebola get me" to the this year's letter to santa[/QUOTE]
Holy water would have a better chance of spreading ebola than an ebola victim's ashes.
[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;46221906]Holy water would have a better chance of spreading ebola than an ebola victim's ashes.[/QUOTE]
are you saying our lord and savior jesus christ in heaven has ebola?? can nothing stop this madness??
[QUOTE=Talishmar;46221717]Make no eye contact with victims to avoid being infected.[/QUOTE]
Be sure to hang flowers up round your windows to stop the miasma from coming in.
I would understand this if it was some kind of exotic prion disease, but a virus?
[QUOTE=BFG9000;46222607]I would understand this if it was some kind of exotic prion disease, but a virus?[/QUOTE]
Actually wouldn't a prion be even safer? In my understanding, prions are essentially misfolded proteins, and that heat will denature the proteins.
The whole reason why prions are more dangerous is because they are really hard to denature, so cooking your meat is not enough to remove mad cow disease if is present.
Complete incineration probably would do the trick but the risk is definitely there.
Wow, they burned six truckloads worth of stuff?
Thats not how it works. Thats not how any of this works.
[QUOTE=Mysterious Mr.E;46223370]Thats not how it works. Thats not how any of this works.[/QUOTE]
This is how it works actually
[video=youtube;1H7RClw6EeQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H7RClw6EeQ[/video]
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