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The flight over must have done him some good because he looked good yesterday —
Apparently there are survivors of the ravages of the Ebola virus. In the world at large, there must also be some natural immunes, whose biological settings are adjusted just enough so the combination of factors that lead to death do not proceed, even though the individual may be subject to fevers and bodily distress before the progress of the disease is arrested.
Our study of the causes and propagation of diseases, while already light-years beyond what it was just fifty years ago, is only now beginning to yield on the more pernicious and aggressive of disease agents. Ebola is like the HIV that progresses to full-blown AIDS, not over a period of several years, but in DAYS, compromising the natural immune systems of the body, and causing massive organ failure once it hits tipping point.
Oh. OK.
this’ll do wonders for the conspiracy folks
Doesn’t the mortality rate go down 10% with each transmission to a new host? IIRC, humans aren’t good hosts and the virus weakens each time it is passed on to a new host.
Br. Patrick Nshamdze, Hospital Director, dies at 52
“Yesterday, August 2nd, our beloved Brother and Hospital Director Patrick Nshamdze died in ELWA Hospital in Monrovia at age 52, after 23 years of religious proffession.
Br Patrick, born in Cameroon, was tested Ebola positive on July 29, after being sick for two weeks. He had been previously tested on July 18, with a negative result.
All of us who form the family of the Saint Joseph´s Catholic Hospital and the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God ask for your prayers for his soul.”
http://www.sjcatholichospital.com/news/
RIP Br
The takeaway here is even when you feel ill you may not test positive for ebola even though you have it.
Brantley just got there yesterday afternoon.
He’s improving from what specific state of health? The fatigue from the long trip? Or from the effects of Ebola?
What did they do for him that less ythan 24 hrs later he’s improving.
CDC is blowing smoke.
Does the body do a 100% job of clearing the virus, or does some remain in the body for ever as happens with some other virus infections?
I really hate words like “unlikely” when it comes to things like someone contracting a deadly disease.