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Condition of hospitalized Ebola nurse in UK worsens
Associated Press ^ | Oct 14, 2015 12:01 PM EDT

Posted on 10/14/2015 9:07:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai

London’s Royal Free Hospital says the condition of a nurse being treated for complications resulting from Ebola has worsened.

The hospital said in a statement Wednesday that Pauline Cafferkey is now critically ill after her condition deteriorated. …

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: ebola; nocontainment; paulinecafferkey; paulinecafferky
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To: null and void

“But I’m not dead yet!”


21 posted on 10/15/2015 5:56:03 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Well... he will be soon— he’s very ill...


22 posted on 10/15/2015 5:58:32 AM PDT by null and void (Reality 1, Liberal Academics 0)
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23 posted on 10/15/2015 6:00:49 AM PDT by Daffynition (*We are not descended from fearful men*)
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To: Covenantor; Mears
The Stand - make sure you get the current edition, 1439 pages in paperback, not the short 1000 or so page version.

Yep, I was wondering if he'd ever seen that book. You'll pull a muscle just picking it up off the shelf. I was in a big Stephen King jag many years ago, but I never could read "The Stand", just too big. The story is great but I was happy to just watch it on tv.

24 posted on 10/15/2015 6:01:22 AM PDT by ozarkgirl
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25 posted on 10/15/2015 8:06:50 AM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: Mears

I was thinking about this poor woman today, and something occurred to me. What if she never actually did beat the Ebola virus? Maybe her body just managed to suppress the Ebola to the point where the viral load was so small that she didn’t present with typical Ebola virus symptoms. She did admit to being pretty unhealthy in the nine months since she supposedly beat the disease. Maybe she has just been fighting it for the last nine months. I bet you that she doesn’t have the anti bodies in her blood to fight this disease. Her body probably learned how to suppress the disease but it didn’t actually learn how to kill it.

If you look at the picture taken of her nine months ago after she “beat” the disease , she looked a lot better than her more recent pictures.

I bet she came into contact with somebody who harbored a virus either at the awards gala that she went to or the school that she visited. That secondary infection could have distracted her immune system long enough for the Ebola to escape where it was being suppressed and to get a foothold in her system once again.

I wouldn’t doubt it if the ZMapp drug that she was given merely helped her body to suppress the Ebola virus for a while, but it never actually helped her body to learn how to kill the virus. That is why you probably will not see this happening to the survivors in Africa. Those people were left to either fight the disease and win or die.They weren’t given experimental drugs. They most likely built up actual anti bodies to the virus instead of just suppressing it. Maybe the experimental drugs just managed to put this nurse in remission(kind of like cancer)rather than to help her build up an immunity to the virus.


26 posted on 10/16/2015 9:30:24 AM PDT by Mrs. Frogjerk
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