“Ebola virus: Life on the front line in Liberia”
“...They tell us about a survivor in their community. He came back from the treatment centre, but despite testing negative for the virus infected his girlfriend, who died.
The semen of male Ebola survivors remains contagious for a minimum of seven weeks after infection.
The villagers ask if survivors can be isolated...”
He was CURED. He had a certificate that told everyone just that. Why COULDN’T he have sex with his girlfriend? He was CURED. He was probably illiterate as well. He heard ‘cured’ and tuned out everything else.
How many of the clusters that have popped up after the initial plateau in May have been from survivors doing what men and women do...?
“Mapp Bio’s Ebola Drug Shows Promise, But Making More Will Take Time”
That is terribly unfortunate. I read one journal article where infectious virus was isolated from semen 82 days after symptom onset.
I wonder what kind of discharge instruction is given to patients upon discharge? Maybe they should be provided with condoms?
This is bad. Very, very bad.
If Ebola ever infects a promiscuous homosexual man in the US, it will spread through the whole gay community within a month.