Can airborne viruses survive in water?
Saturday, April 22, 2017 - 22:31
in Biology & Nature
A new study challenges the tenet that herpes viruses, like most enveloped viruses, are relatively unstable outside their host. Under a variety of conditions equine herpesvirus remained stable and infectious over a three week period. This suggests that untreated water could be a source of infection by some herpesviruses.