Get a load of this and tell me if you feel 'comfortable' with this knowing how long it stays in 'certain fluids', human nature and people's ability to deny deny deny and fail to follow doctor's orders.
Nice story. I like the blue dresses they give the nursing students in Sierra Leone, very attractive.
It looks like the problem with recovered Ebola patients is that people remain afraid of them, even after they have been shown to be virus-free for 4 days and have a certificate.
The families look very close in those pictures; they do not strike me as the kind of people who would be flippant about instructions to not be intimate before the required wait period is over.
I wonder if someone is doing a more systematic study to determine the outside limits of virus viability in bodily fluids (mostly semen and breast milk; the virus also can survive in fluid inside the eye, but I don't see that as a route of transmission). It would certainly make sense to do the follow-up with these recovered patients, and so much can be learned.
“The families look very close in those pictures; they do not strike me as the kind of people who would be flippant about instructions to not be intimate before the required wait period is over.”
Looks are very often deceiving. You are essentially trusting the whole village to the sex drive of one person.
Read the Hot Zone. One man gave Marburg to every prostitute in a single village.
Don’t assume that men only have sex with their wives. They often have sex with themselves, other women and even other men.
Moreover, most of the people in those countries are illiterate. They also have little regard for Western medicine. Plus they now have certificates declaring them ‘cured’. So, if they’re indeed ‘cured’, why the need to abstain for 7+ weeks?
It’s a recipe for disaster.