Apparently this has been thought about. Here is a link from a waste water treatment site that indicates that the virus can not live on water and is not dangerous to flush. http://www.tpomag.com/online_exclusives/2014/10/ebola_information_released_for_water_and_wastewater_utilities

Anonymous wrote: Serious question despite my title... Is the poo and pee of quarantined Ebola patients disposed of differently. If not, is there the potential to spread the virus through human waste if say a body of water gets contaminated?

OMG, great question. I was wondering this myself.

SCENARIO 1: Ebola infected person has diarrhea and flushes multiple poops into septic field. Animals somehow eat the poop. Can they spread it?

SCENARIO 2: as above but flushes into public system. Can it be spread to animals or our water supply from there?

I hope officials are asking these questions as silly as they seem.

You know, obviously we don't have anyone with Ebola in the District currently. And I didn't come here to panic about stuff.

But, it occurred to me that when there is heavy rain, there is lots of raw sewage dumped into Rock Creek and the Potomac River. (The combined sewer outflows -- google it if you haven't been following it.) So it wouldn't go through sewage treatment. Don't know if that would be a problem or not. Georgetown is one of the combined sewer areas -- I wonder if Georgetown Hospital is served by a combined part of the system.

What about Ebola poop on a plane?

Um, don't you think ISIS is having a field day trying to figure out the best way to weaponize Ebola themselves?

Brown bag poop will most likely infect the person delivering it, and it could take 21 days for the person to even show symptoms, and the person could recover. A live person can still kill.

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Anonymous wrote: I think we need to collect all the Ebola poo poo and vomit and dump it on ISIS!

Let's put Ebola poop in a brown bag, leave it on the doorstep of an ISIS leader, light the poop bag on fire, ring the bell and run away fast!

That is a war crime

Love having well water...

Bleach kills it. Isn't there bleach in sewage plants?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I think we need to collect all the Ebola poo poo and vomit and dump it on ISIS!

Let's put Ebola poop in a brown bag, leave it on the doorstep of an ISIS leader, light the poop bag on fire, ring the bell and run away fast!