They exposed the virus to different conditions and used two methods to look at the infectivity of the virus. When the virus was spread in a thin layer onto surfaces like glass, metal or leaves, the longest survival was 144 hours at 5 degrees C (thatâs ~ 41F).
Liddell disputed that contention and badly wanted the match, which took two years to put together. But after Randy Couture claimed the title from Ortiz at UFC 44, Ortiz could no longer duck Liddell, not if he wanted to get another shot at the title.
The heavyweight division has been an afterthought in America since 2002, when Lennox Lewis gave Mike Tyson an eight-round beating in Memphis. Lewis held the crown for about another year before retiring, and since then the Klitschko brothers, Vitali and Wladimir, have gotten rich by defending their belts in Europe.