The trick seems to be to suppress the virus long enough or successfully treat the symptoms long enough for the organs producing adaptive immune cells to survive. Unlike HIV, once an adaptive immune response develops, the virus is destroyed. In all the survivors we have, no trace of Ebola has been found. Current theory is supportive care and virus suppression may allow the spleen and lymphatic system to survive long enough to start producing Ebola killers, absent that, the structures of the specific immune system are destroyed too quickly to kick in.
Agreed.
Thank-you for your post. It clarifies what the first order of business is; help the body send out its own “Ebola killer.”
I propose there may be SNPs ‘like’ the ccr5 d32 mutation that confers partial immunity to HIV infection.