Does Rain Water carry VIRUSES?

Answer 1

Rain can certainly carry viruses - they are very small particles that can be carried in blowing dust which can then be absorbed into clouds or falling rain. However, most viruses that can infect humans and make them sick are fairly fragile and cannot exist for long outside the human body. Even if there were dangerous viruses in the rain, they would need an open "port of entry" to enter the body in an amount significant enough to cause sickness. The real danger with rain is that it can cause puddles of stagnant water, which are the natural breeding ground for mosquitoes that can transmit dangerous microbes like the West Nile Virus.

Answer 2

Water goes up in the air as minute steam particles (evaporation), and usually in this form any excess material bonded with the particles are shaken off. The steam accumulates into clouds which condense the water together and falls as rain. Viruses are much larger than chemicals and so don't cling to evaporating water, the clouds, or to the rain which comes from it because it wouldn't have gotten up there in the first place.

So it is unlikely that rain will bring with it diseases.

Bodies of water on the ground, however, can have viruses in them since organic life moves to and fro from them easily.

Answer 3

If air is polluted with virus, rain water may carry that virus. When raining starts then at first the water may be contaminated with virus. After raining has occured for some time, then the rain water is pure as the the air has become washed away earlier.

Answer 4

yes it's possible, a lot of viruses live in damp places, also if it rains directly on a virus particle in the air then that rain droplet would carry the virus. Most viruses are pretty resistant to the atmosphere.

Answer 5

Although rainwater is quite pure, raindrops condense on tiny dust particles called condensation nuclei. It is possible that such a dust particle might carry a virus, but pure water is inhospitable to viruses (due to osmotic pressure, among other reasons) and the chance of becoming ill from drinking rainwater is negligible.

Answer 6

Rain water is as safe as water gets. All drinking water is rain sourced water. Most air pollutants are taken in through breathing rather than drinking rain water. Rain droplets form at high altitude and therefore at a lower air pressure. Virus's die at lower air pressure faster because their internal pressure is greater than their external pressure and are more likely to die from internal disruption. Most air pollutants because of their mass and density are at lower altitudes.

"rain water' described as rain directly from condensation of water gas/vapour from the sky...after contact with earth or animals or plants then it is run off water. Run off water is usually stored in water resevoirs for human public use.

Answer 7

i've never heard of this before but if it was to be true, it depends on how the water is affecting yur body and how the water got into your body
also u do get ammonia if u stay out in the rain too long

Answer 8

of course it does, but not all of the rain should be contaminated.
the first rain of the season is sure to have viruses.

Answer 9

that is destiled water, so it should be biologicaly clean, so: NO. nevertheless, it is not chemicaly clean, cause water absorbes planty of molculs that float in air, and cause of polution, most of them shouldn't be there, and are toxic

Answer 10

YES I THINK IN THAT WATER EXIST VERY VERY VERY VERY VIRUSES AND BACTERIES