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MarMema:" They said however that he rec'd a blood transfusion from a child whose life he had saved.."

Yes I recall seeing that somewhere in one of the reports
Interesting if for no other reason than Dr Brantly is ob/gyn , and was in a separate building , away from the isolation ward.
Also ,by having a transfusion from a survivor, as I don't believe that fits in with medical protocol for viral pandemimic medicine.

Actually Brantly is a GP who was working with the ebola patients. The doc in Nebraska right now is the one who was infected in an ob/gyn ward in another building.

But Brantly did receive a transfusion from a recovered patient.

According to what I either read or understood from his interview, he was treating Ebola patients. He even talked about some of them dying and the conversations he had with some of them.

He also was going to the ER to evaluate suspected Ebola patients, and that is where he thinks he may have been exposed. He said he is absolutely certain that he did not get it in isolation zone.

I am wondering about when he took off the suit. The lady who was helping decontaminate the docs wearing the suits got infected, and it was reported that she had not had any patient contact.

Brantley stated that he had a fever and thought he might have malaria, but when that test was negative, he thought he probably had Ebola. At his first symptom, he called, and they sent a person in the protective gear to take his blood for testing.

The quick test was negative, the 72 hr. test was positive, but IIRC, he had already progressed to the point that he more or less knew he had it anyway. He was quarantined at his house, and the health care workers came to him.

The impression was that he never went back to the clinic for treatment.

Did you happen to see Matt Laurer’s interview with Dr. Brantley? I found it very interesting. Franklin Graham played a big part in getting him out of that country and back to the USA.

I don’t know about the protocols, but he was given a unit of blood from a boy who had survived. And Brantley has donated a unit of blood to the guy in Nebraska.

Apparently WHO approves this treatment as one worth trying.

The thing I don’t understand is if the virus can live in Semen for 60 days after symptoms are gone, how can someone donate blood so soon?

Maybe if a person already has Ebola, it doesn’t matter, it’s getting the extra antibodies that counts? So much we don’t know yet, and so much misinformation around too.