Primarygun Posted January 13, 2005 Posted January 13, 2005 AIDS virus will die if they are contact with air. What actually causes the death of them? If a blood with virus is left on a table, what will happen to the virus?
ed84c Posted January 13, 2005 Posted January 13, 2005 It will denature. Its because it is and i quote 'quite fragile'
Sayonara Posted January 13, 2005 Posted January 13, 2005 'Inert' or 'inactive' will do fine in place of 'dead'.
atinymonkey Posted January 13, 2005 Posted January 13, 2005 I prefer my answer. The words death and virus should never be associated.
Sayonara Posted January 13, 2005 Posted January 13, 2005 Assuming you're in the "viruses are not alive" school of thought, and not all immunologists or virologists are. "You can't kill a virus" as a response to someone who may not know that viruses are on the alive/not alive border is ambiguous at best.
atinymonkey Posted January 13, 2005 Posted January 13, 2005 Because the answer 'viruses are not alive' triggers the thought process of 'holy **** perhaps I don't know much about viruses' in the original poser, as well as reminding other posters the depth of answer that would be required to satisfy the posers query. By all means if you wish to dig out the GSCE biology, at start with the nature of a cell v's a virus go right ahead. I still prefer my answer.
Sayonara Posted January 13, 2005 Posted January 13, 2005 "You can't kill a virus" != "viruses aren't alive". You aren't making a lot of sense.
Sayonara Posted January 13, 2005 Posted January 13, 2005 AIDS virus will die if they are contact with air. What actually causes the death of them? If a blood with virus is left on a table, what will happen to the virus? To answer your question, viruses are said to become 'inactive' or 'inert' when they cease to function in a way that will allow them to behave normally. HIV is (as has been mentioned) a fragile virus with a very narrow range of environmental conditions in which it can survive without being damaged. What actually happens to a virus on contact with air depends very much on the virus in question.
atinymonkey Posted January 13, 2005 Posted January 13, 2005 "You can't kill a virus" != "viruses aren't alive". You aren't making a lot of sense. No, you are being difficult. Paraphrasing out of context is the big hint.
Sayonara Posted January 13, 2005 Posted January 13, 2005 I haven't paraphrased anyone, whether in or out of context. I said that your first response to this thread was ambiguous and unhelpful, and I stand by it. Please try to keep the big bad glib out of the science threads, and in the politics threads where it belongs.
ecoli Posted January 13, 2005 Posted January 13, 2005 Either way, when come into contact with air, the vius looses the ability to infect humans... biologically speaking it cannot reproduce, and so it may as well be dead.
Primarygun Posted January 14, 2005 Author Posted January 14, 2005 Thank you for any responses to my question:P. Normally, what's the possibility that the blood spilt out from one body and left in air after some while, the receiver will be infected by HIV virus in the blood. Will the chance being enhanced if the blood is very large?
Sayonara Posted January 14, 2005 Posted January 14, 2005 As usual a larger volume to surface area ratio will slow down the rate at which conditions in the spilled blood approach those of the surrounding environment, so the larger the globule of blood, the longer the virus will survive in it. If the blood was sprayed from the body, it would obviously be many smaller globules with larger surface area to volume ratios, so the virus would be quickly killed in that case.
Primarygun Posted January 14, 2005 Author Posted January 14, 2005 How about a small drop? How long will the virus be denatured?
atinymonkey Posted January 14, 2005 Posted January 14, 2005 I haven't paraphrased anyone' date=' whether in or out of context. I said that your first response to this thread was ambiguous and unhelpful, and I stand by it. Please try to keep the big bad glib out of the science threads, and in the politics threads where it belongs.[/quote'] OK SPACEMAN!!!112
Sayonara Posted January 14, 2005 Posted January 14, 2005 Unless it's a reply to a Creationist, obviously.
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