jmcrookston, 20 days ago

Viruses sampled out of the air include influenza

https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/110987291726377204

jmcrookston, 20 days ago

Only takes one successful virus to infect.

Hence, reduce the number you suck in you dirty air-breathing vacuum

https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/111205323609496167

jmcrookston, 20 days ago

Ten particles for flu infects half the time (one ID50).

From 1954.

https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/111257258122080302

jmcrookston, 20 days ago

https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/111471652316380559

"The approx 50% human infectious dose (HID50-50% human infectious dose) of virus per volunteer was 1 to 126 TCID50 (tissue culture 50% infectious dose). The dose for half of volunteers was 5 TCID50....

jmcrookston, 20 days ago

... The other half, who had very low or nondetectable preinoculation antibody titers, were infected with 0.6 to 3 TCID50. ..."

jmcrookston, 20 days ago

Rather shocking nobody else that I'm aware of has ever really talked about all this after 4 years.

Or that virologists get it wrong and don't understand it /don't want to ruin the gravy train of toeing the line to understand it.

Well you're more well informed than they are.

jmcrookston, 20 days ago

I mean aside from the air people of course.

Establishment medical is so ridiculously backwards, burn it all down.

jmcrookston, 20 days ago

Here's what a joke it is. This is from Bennett on Infectious Disease.

Says it might be airborne.

(3-metres now? Interesting.)

jmcrookston, 20 days ago

Here the textbook describes the evidence for airborne, in fact goes on to say if it's airborne everyone in healthcare would need to wear a mask, and cites some (probably garbage) studies that suggest that because not everyone got sick it must be droplet-spread, which is made up.

jmcrookston, 20 days ago

Ah, footnote 68 is Loeb from 2009. Haha of course it is. Toss it.

jmcrookston, 20 days ago

Funny no ID docs post from Bennett. 🤷

jmcrookston, 20 days ago

Mandell, Douglas and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 9th edition if you are curious. Page 2148.

jmcrookston, 20 days ago

Lots of things in the air.

Ebola's in the air too.

One wonders what other viruses are in the air, which public health STEADFASTLY assures us are not. 😉

OliverNoble, 19 days ago

@jmcrookston Ebola is not in the air here or anywhere unless you are flinging body fluids around

Plenty of airborne killers around but thankfully #ebola isnt one