“Doctors do not think it likely that Sacra, who has been suffering from a persistent cough and low-grade fever for several days, has suffered a relapse of Ebola.”
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My BS meter is about to explode.
Agree. Healthy 51 year olds don’t just check back into the hospital with fever and persistent cough. It certainly is cause for concern.
It would not be unusual that one viral infection weakened the immune system enough to have a secondary infection, either viral or bacterial. I seriously doubt a relapse of Ebola. Unless he got the zmapp and it turns out that it just suppresses the infection for a while but does not kill it....
“Healthy 51 year olds don’t just check back into the hospital with fever and persistent cough. It certainly is cause for concern.”
From my great-great-grandson’s history book in 2054:
“While the origins of the Black Plague are still in debate, the source of the Ebola Pandemic, which began in 2014 is more clear. Although most of the records were lost in the chaos in the years afterwards as billions died and societies collapsed, it is believed that the Ebola virus became truly airborne when the virus mutated while in a person also infected with enterovirus D-68.”
No one who has ever had a tough bout with Ebola (most who survive) is ever really healthy ever again, and prone to new problems.
Prolonged cases are often complicated by the occurrence of long-term problems, such as inflammation of the testicles, joint pains, muscle pains, skin peeling, or hair loss. Eye symptoms, such as light sensitivity, excess tearing, iritis, iridocyclitis, choroiditis, and blindness have also been described. --wiki