Posted on 08/21/2014 5:43:01 AM PDT by condi2008
Dr. Kent Brantly, the Samaritan’s Purse doctor who contracted Ebola while caring for patients in Liberia, will be released from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta today after completing his recovery from the deadly virus.
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Is he now immune to Eboli? Can they use his blood for a serum?
Wonder if Ann Coulter will be upset…..
Your comment shows how little you understood of what she did say.
Perhaps, but active Ebola virii have been found in certain body fluids up to 61 days after recovery.
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
From what I’ve read the survivors do tend to have anti-bodies but I don’t think I’ve ever read that they are immune. They are using survivors blood serum for the anti-bodies but its not a cure.
If I recall correctly the woman received a serum from one of the other survivors.
Mostly the semen. Ebola does nasty things to the testicles in men and to pregnant women.
Your comment shows how little you understand about rhetorical snarky comments made for effect.
And FTR, I know exactly what she said, exactly what she meant, and how blitheringly ignorant she was, and how confused she was on the issue of service to your country and service to God. EXACTLY.
I have had the opportunity to visit the Samaritan’s Purse campus on two occasions. I was flabbergasted at the size. It is tucked away in it’s own little valley just outside of Boone North Carolina.
The place is quite large and has many buildings that serve the diverse operations of the organization. The buildings are architecturally up to date but not ostentatious. The grounds are expertly manicured. The streets are clean and neat.
The staff I met are very capable and seem more suited to the urbanity of the Research Triangle of Raleigh/Durham rather than the mountains and very rural countryside that is Boone. They are completely dedicated to their tasks.
Yes, well boil it down to a couple of sentences for me then.
As I recall, Dr. Brantly received blood from a boy who’d recovered from Ebola under his care. I wondered at the time if there was an immunity factor involved.
By definition, “quarantine” is two weeks...
I did - at length - last week in several threads….but I suppose it's relevant again with this news.
First, she was judging how people respond to a call from God through the lens of service to country. The two are TOTALLY different.
Second, she arrogantly assumed - at least in what she wrote - that foreign missionaries do that work to the exclusion of all good citizenship services. That's patently false, as I know several who are also politically aware, active in voting, donating to candidates, and on social media fighting the good fight.
Third, she conflated the showy "short term mission" narcissism - which I admit is rampant - with the motivations of long term missions, which is almost always totally the opposite.
Fourth, she was critical of how a private organization, Samaritans Purse, was spending private money. I thought only liberals did that.
Fifth: so what Ann - if this is not your thing, fine - but you criticizing missionaries as bad Americans is like missionaries or preachers criticizing you as being a bad Christian because you work in the secular media. BOTH would be wrong. And Ann was wrong.
That’s a good question, but the communicable part of most diseases skews on the early side - starting before symptoms start and ending before symptoms end. I would assert that this is perhaps true in this case. (not an MD, didn’t even stay at Holiday Inn Express last night….but just speculating…)
Sure, I have a bridge for sale. The msm will never tell the truth and have avoided giving specific dates. They moved their scheduled flight home for a family wedding up by several days and flew out mere hours before he checked himself into the hospital. They flew out on the 20th and he admitted himself to the hospital on the morning of the 22nd. No one can tell me they didn't already know he was infected and got the heck outta Dodge before they could be asked/made to stay. The US is VERY lucky they didn't bring it with them. Then they go see their new born nephew/cousin? Uh, excuse me, no one who's been within a 1000 miles of ebola would be invited to hug and kiss my baby. But, hey, maybe that's just me.
Fully recovered, huh. Really? Never mind that it stays in his semen for 6 weeks. Don't worry! Be happy! Nothing to see. Move along.
I'm still not buying he was given one of 3 doses of that super duper amazing magical serum and within 60 minutes he was snatched from death's door, his rash was gone and he was practically dancing a jig. Whatever. Follow the money.
Oh, and let us not forget the ambulance didn't pull up to the door and they didn't move him on a stretcher or wheelchair like everyone else is required to have for insurance purposes. Oh, no, he gets out and walks some distance across sharp gravel which could puncture his suit. Doesn't matter if he rubber boots under the suit, the suit would still have a hole in it. Any fall would have ripped the suit. Something about that whole thing smells.
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Your comment shows how little you understand about rhetorical snarky comments made for effect.
And FTR, I know exactly what she said, exactly what she meant, and how blitheringly ignorant she was, and how confused she was on the issue of service to your country and service to God. EXACTLY.
For the enlightenment of those of us who could not get past Coulter's first paragraph or two, could the two of you each give a summary of how YOU interpreted her remarks?
Thanks!
My post #16 on this thread pretty much sums it up….
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