Posted on 10/16/2014 2:41:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
PLEASE read through, and inform more FReepres or your acquaintances
By "CDC studies", the UK source only referenced the 2001/2002 studies. If you include the 2005 CDC research Jake Tapper used for his tweet citing, I have shown in the following copy/paste comment I posted elsewhere that CDC did not PROVE that dogs are Ebola viral vectors, in fact this paper clearly showed dogs are not Ebola virus carriers.
Unless there are further follow up stud(ies) after this 2005 paper, the case for dogs as Ebola viral vector is not as clear cut.The authors concluded that (1) dogs were infected with Ebola virus in the affected area where there was Ebola outbreak, developed the viral specific antigen (IgG), which is measured in this study.
However, (2) dogs do not develop Ebola symptoms (i.e., asymptomatic), none of the dogs tested showed presence of viral DNA (via PCR testing), and more importantly, nor viral particles can be isolated in the test serum.
In order to be a viral vector, you need to have viral particles accumulated to a certain amount in order to infect other animal/species.
This is the part that’s a huge “Assumption” in this paper -
(excerpt)“Although dogs can be asymptomatically infected, they may excrete infectious viral particles in urine, feces, and saliva for a short period before virus clearance, as observed experimentally in other animals.” (end excerpt)
Thus CDC and these authors need to do the follow-up study to confirm this. This is where online community can help out in digging out more Ebola studies.
I haven't read through the parts about rhesus monkeys, so will refrain from commenting with regards to airborne or not.
41 posted on 10/14/2014 12:32:17 PM by Sir Napsalot
Quite a difference in two years. That line for Ebola would be four times the width of that graph today.
oops, didn’t see it was already in thousands.
oops, didn’t see it was already in thousands.
There were people who were immune to The Spanish Flu.
Why not this?
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That is this year value compared to 2012 of the others above. Numbers are in the thousands.
Thanks for posting...Puts it all into better perspective...
And lets not forget the all-time, No. 1 by far killer of humans since it was invented...
The State...Government...
They are either killing or isolating Dogs. So I would say that they believe Dogs can spread the infection.
Maybe the cure can be found in Keith Richards’ blood.
Are we sure that is his blood? I heard he stole it from an immortal vampire?
Who are ‘they’?
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
I won’t be gambling the lives of my family on some guess that maybe some of us might be immune to Ebola.
Well there’s always somebody out there with the right genetic combination to be immune from Item X. But I wouldn’t go licking ebola patients to find out if you’re one of the lucky 25.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Thank you. I thought this might be so.
I call BS on the numbers.
That's just the *confirmed* cases, the numbers given to help prevent panic over the actual numbers.
Considering the quality of healthcare in Africa and the numbers of people being turned away from hospitals, or just never taken there in the first place, I think the numbers are FAR higher.
It’s been scientifically documented for a long time that a large number of Africans have anti-Ebola antibodies in their blood, indicative of non-symptomatic exposure.
If a genetic marker that confers natural immunity to Ebola is identified, you don’t need to be exposed to Ebola to see if you have the marker. A simple genetic test can show if the marker is present.
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