Sounds like the perfect task to give to this fruitcake:
Posted on 10/16/2014 7:26:30 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Large swathes of the West African population may be immune to the deadly Ebola virus, ravaging the region.
The current outbreak, the worst on record since the virus was discovered in 1976, has claimed the lives of 4,493 people, infecting 8,997, the World Health Organisation said yesterday.
But a team of scientists in the US believe the Ebola virus may be silently immunising a significant portion of the population, who never fall ill or infect others, protecting them from future infection.
These people will never show the tell-take signs of the disease, the high fever, headaches and flu-like symptoms.
They will never succumb to the extreme vomiting, diarrhoea, nor the deadly internal bleeding.
If this immunity can be confirmed and identified, it could, a team of researchers from the University of Florida and the University of Texas say, change the strategy for fighting the disease.
They suggest those found to be naturally immune to Ebola could help slow the spread of the disease in two important ways.
Firstly they can be recruited to work as health workers and caregivers, helping treat the most contagious patients and high-risk communities.
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Yep, that's the ticket.
Fine, but how do you know you have immunity? Kiss a guy with Ebola, and if you aren’t dead in a week, congratulations?
So this is why flights haven’t been halted - we’re trying to get these naturally immune people into the United States.
Sounds like the perfect task to give to this fruitcake:
I personally have long suspected that the “cure” for various ailments can be found in the people who don’t get it. There are people who never get the common cold, flu, cancer, whatever. It’s almost impossible to differentiate between good fortune and immunity, though.
Statistically I would guess that due to the wide variation in individual genetics that there are people who are immune to string viruses but don’t know it.
I have discovered through long and intensive research that I am immune to anorexia.
For the first forty years of my life....I had a twice-a-year cold episode. Then one day, I started taking vitamin C (in pill, juice, and orange form), and for the ten years...I’d take a guess that I’ve only had a cold three times. Now, I admit....I’m more picky about shaking hands and sanitizing after touching public doors/surfaces. I also spot people with colds and stay a good six feet away. I lessen my use of public restaurants and pubs. And I don’t spend a lot of time out in some freezing environment for hours and hours.
Sorry to tell you this, but there will not be a large number of Africans with immunity to Ebola. We do not know for certain if having a “weak case” of Ebola immunizes anyone against a “strong case” of Ebola or even if they had Ebola at all.
Hope is not a strategy, anyway.
Go Gators (and Hook 'Em Horns)!
There is only one way to find out, and I am not volunteering.
Those found naturally immune to ebola could become like Abby in the series Survivors.
Reality mirroring movieland, again.
You should have applied for the million$ spent in universities for that research.
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Ahaaaaaaaaaa LOL. Good one.
Too late. Trying to identify people with immunity? When we can't even identify the people who have it?
In 2009, Obama was handed a request by the CDC to set up a total of 18 centers to fight ebola. That was five years ago. None of their requests were acted upon. If Obama had been doing his job instead of going on numerous 8-hour golf outings, then maybe we would have been prepared for this thing.
Obama dropped he ball big time.
Exactly. How do you know?
So 30% of those who have had it survived and are then immune - Why don’t they take over the health care duties for nurses. Just don’t care or what. Too much work?
Those Horns of yours has had Prof. Pianka on staff for years who teaches his students that he wants Ebola to wipe out 90% of the human race.
Gig ‘Em Aggies! They’re the ones in charge of Nurse Nina’s dog.
EVERY University has their nutcase professors.
Those who have had Ebola and survived should be recruited as nurses and blood donors. I wonder if this is being done in Africa.
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