Posted on 08/21/2014 8:50:39 AM PDT by jazusamo
ATLANTA (AP) — After nearly three weeks of treatment, the two American aid workers who were infected with the deadly Ebola virus in Africa have been discharged from an Atlanta hospital, officials said Thursday.
An official at Emory University Hospital stressed that their release poses no public health risk, and Dr. Kent Brantly, 33, called it a “miraculous day.”
“I am thrilled to be alive, to be well, and to be reunited with my family. As a medical missionary I never imagined myself in this position,” Brantly said. He spoke at a news conference after his release Thursday. Nancy Writebol, 59, was released Tuesday, and her husband said in statement emailed by aid group SIM that that she is free of the virus but in a weakened condition and was recuperating at an undisclosed location.
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This is great news. Some people would have let him die in Africa.
Actually, at least one patient who was given ZMapp has died, and the very few others have not yet recovered.
10 to 30% of people who get Ebola are able to fight it off without drugs.
The ZMapp is a combination of antibodies both human and I think pig. It basically boosts the immune system.
So far 2 of the 3 people who received ZMapp have survived. So it’s looking positive. Right now it looks like you have a 30% chance of survival without the drug, and a 70% chance of survival with the drug.
They can’t administer a drug whose supply is depleted. There were only a few experimental doses, and they were used up.
More is being manufactured, but it takes time.
Also consider that an experimental drug can be very dangerous, even deadly. When you’re dying anyway, giving informed consent is a no-brainer. It is apparently not a preventive, only effective after symptoms appear, so the patient receiving a dose would have to be cogent enough to agree in writing to accept the risk.
Odd, because supposedly survivors can secrete the virus for six months in semen and breast milk - it can be spread by every body fluid including sweat and urine.
I would not want to shake their hands. I would not want to touch a door knob they had touched, or use even treated water from a system that they had peed into.
In nursing and EMS classes, it is taught that sweat and urine are not body fluids that transmit disease. Think again, friends.
This “idiot” has dedicated his life to helping people.
How are you spending yours?
Shame on you for insulting a good man.
Thanks for your most appropriate response.
How many times are we going to reward stupid and risk a national health crisis? And I didn’t insult him - I said, IF he goes back, he shouldn’t be evacuated again.
“Odd, because supposedly survivors can secrete the virus for six months in semen and breast milk - it can be spread by every body fluid including sweat and urine.”
Hence my point about his wife. She must be ecstatic!
Do you think he is gonna get Ebola again? Lol. There have been other doctors who have survived a version of Ebola. And they treated patients for many years after.
How was stupid rewarded?
I suppose it’s like the common cold, you’re eventually out of it, but there’s no cure.
> Do you think he is gonna get Ebola again?
There is the question of whether or not these two survivors are now thought to be immune to this particular strain. I have no idea.
But if they think they are, they’d be ideal health care workers on scene, and I could see them electing to return.
Idiot, someone has to go to Africa to fight Ebola.
So you don’t consider calling someone “this idiot” is an insult. Fine. To each his own.
Few would agree with you.
If Dr. Brantly returns to Africa, good for him. He is possibly the most qualified doctor in the world to work in the ebola wards, considering the antibodies he no doubt carries.
Neither you nor the American public were ever at risk from Dr. Brantley or Mrs. Writebol. You are, however, in imminent risk from whoever is coming across the southern border and whatever they carry, whether illness or sword for beheading.
Wouldn’t it be easier to import it here and avoid the trip?
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...
A recovery this fast makes me wonder if they ever had the disease at all. Maybe they were mis-diagnosed.
Interesting theory, unique thank goodness, most people like to do like we have always done with Ebola and other such deseases, go to the infected sites and try to end the outbreak before it becomes unmanageable entirely.
Great news. Now, we can wait for the genetic overcome, which will be- fast and furious. Since, ebola genetics are fresh in our dna memory.
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