Posted on 10/13/2014 6:56:21 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The Texan nurse diagnosed with Ebola has received a blood transfusion from survivor Dr Kent Brantly, reports claim. It is the third time Dr Brantly has donated blood to Ebola victims after medics discovered he had the same blood type as previous patient Dr Nick Sacra and NBC cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, who is still being treated.
Incredibly, nurse Nina Pham, 26, has also matched with Brantly and today received a transfusion of his blood in a move that doctors believe could save her .
Pham has been in quarantine since Friday after catching the disease from 'patient zero' Thomas Eric Duncan - the man who brought the deadly virus to America.
Brantly is believed to have traveled to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where Pham worked, to make the donation on Sunday night. Today, Pham's condition was described as 'clinically stable'.
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I hope they all make it.
HER BF IS IN QUARANTINE WITH SYMPTOMS....
Dats raciss.
Where did you see this at?
So do I. Prayers up for them.
Are you kidding me?
Oh good grief!
Hmmm. Does this make sense? Can’t understand if one is only contagious with the onset of symptoms, then add the incubation period, how could the boyfriend be showing symptoms already? If she became symptomatic on Friday, this is only Monday.
Thanks AnnieOkie.
And what about all the other people she came in contact with?
It’s true. Hopefully Nina and her boyfriend share the same blood type.
Dr. Brantly is a saint. Praise God and Dr. Brantly.
Lord, she is in your hands. I pray that you spare her. Amen.
I don’t know enough on the subject, but is it strange that a vast majority of infected Americans would share the same blood type? Or would it just imply that the good Dr’s blood type is a universal donor?
And what about all the other people she came in contact with?
“Its true.”
Source?
I suspect Dr Brantly is O+.......universal donor. I am O+ and was frequently called to donate when there was a low blood supply in the hospital where I worked. God bless Dr Brantly, he is a saint.
I hope she survives. Was the good doctor’s blood offered to the lying Liberian who brought the disease here?
Where did you hear this? Watching Fox News, nothing..twitter, nothing about this
Good question. It only makes sense if the disease is contagious before the symptoms show. This would be disastrous.
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