This is scary.
A new born has Ebola, both parents test healthy.
No one knows why.
http://en.starafrica.com/news/guinea-newborn-tests-positive-for-ebola-despite-healthy-parents.html
November 1, 2015
A baby born to “healthy parents†has tested positive for the Ebola virus in the town of Forecariah in Guinea near the border with Sierra Leone, Fodé Tass Sylla, the communication officer of the national response coordination against the epidemic confirmed on Sunday. In a local radio interview, Mr. Sylla described the newborn’s infection as an unusual case in the spread of the devastating disease.
The communication officer announced that Guinean Prime Minister, Mohamed Said Fofana and his government have been informed about the new case involving a baby, whose parents were not diagnosed with Ebola following tests in specialized laboratories.
To date, only four confirmed cases are reported in Guinea with another three suspected ones, he said.
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I would want to see some stringent verification that the newborn does, indeed, have Ebola virus.
While I could propose a hypothesis whereby the mother had a sub-clinical case of Ebola and developed an adequate immune response, but not before the baby was infected, and her antibodies protected the baby just enough to prevent it from dying—I want to see confirmation.
There was a case where a newborn or preborn baby got Ebola and survived, but that was an exception. Most of the time, babies in utero die quickly from Ebola, and their mothers usually do not survive either.