Does a virus survive vacuum?

[The LightKeeper]

wfields at dekalb.dc.peachnet.edu (William M Fields,NB234  LRC
,551-3059,8) muttered:


>I appreciate the iniatives toward food sterilization technology, but what 
>has happened to radiation?  Has it proven to be unsatifactory? It 
>certainly seems to knock the bases right off their sugars.

People tend to go nutso when told the food they are about to eat
was nuked.  (Never mind the fact that they probably popped it in
the microwave 20 seconds before. . .)  I guess they think they'll
get cancer. . . better immagined cancer than real E. coli or some
nasty virus.   (Marburg, anyone?)

-Lighty