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Ebola survivor infected years ago may have started new outbreak in Guinea, claim researchers
msn.com ^ | 3/12/21 | Denise Grady

Posted on 03/13/2021 8:04:18 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt

An Ebola outbreak now occurring in Guinea was almost certainly started by someone who survived West Africa’s historic 2014-16 epidemic,
harbored the virus for at least five years and then transmitted it via semen to a sex partner, researchers reported on Friday.
The current outbreak in Guinea was first recognized in January and has infected at least 18 people and killed nine."
(Emphasis Mine)

"West Africa’s previous epidemic infected more than 28,000 people, killed more than 11,000 and left thousands of survivors,
some of whom were already being shunned because of fears about the disease. "

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; History; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: ebola; guinea; reinfection; virus
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

In before Fraud PedoJoe imports and releases them in your neighborhood.


21 posted on 03/13/2021 8:47:50 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: mewzilla
mewzilla :" The question is whether or not what’s present in the semen in the man who had it years ago is capable of infecting anyone today.
FWIW, I highly doubt it. But it makes for some dandy fear porn. "

This unique finding will undergo a series of independent testing to confirm this medical finding.
Under the "Scientific Method", this test result should be able to be duplicated elsewhere, verifying that this is the 2014 -2016 same virus.
Not directly mentioned, as I recall, is whether the individual overcame the ebola virus by himself,
or was assisted by being a recipient of ebola vaccines, which may have some bearing on the testing results.
As stated earlier, this is a unique and unexpected result of gene testing, and will require further study and independent testing.

22 posted on 03/13/2021 9:06:27 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: BipolarBob

They should have been wearing masks.

On what body parts?

Will Fauci approve of this? Will he go on You Tube to show us what to do?


23 posted on 03/13/2021 9:07:00 AM PST by Grampa Dave ("The Covid 19 Circus has run out of acts. It’s time to reopen. It is past time! It’s long overdue! ")
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To: Rurudyne

If so those people will be ****ed.

Yes, they will be!


24 posted on 03/13/2021 9:08:23 AM PST by Grampa Dave ("The Covid 19 Circus has run out of acts. It’s time to reopen. It is past time! It’s long overdue! ")
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Ebola outbreaks are common in Africa....at best they control the spread.


25 posted on 03/13/2021 9:08:24 AM PST by caww ("Politics is not a game, but a serious business" - Churchill)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Thanks as usual.


26 posted on 03/13/2021 9:10:38 AM PST by Grampa Dave ("The Covid 19 Circus has run out of acts. It’s time to reopen. It is past time! It’s long overdue! ")
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

And we will soon hear how Chomo Joe saved the world yet again from ebola all while saving the world from kung flu for on the democrat party propaganda madia.


27 posted on 03/13/2021 9:17:19 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Keyhopper
Keyhopper :" I thought once you had ebola you were immune from catching it again."

Previously known sources of ebola infection : personal contact or proximity with infected person, or their property,
consumption of infected 'wild meats', sexual intimacy with an infected individual.
Even those who survive the disease face 'shunning' and social distancing from others; so obviously there is a concern in their society of infection.
Specifically trying to answer your question about being immune, I don't recall that as being the case.
We are still learning more each day about the intricacies and specifics of viral infections and diseases.

28 posted on 03/13/2021 9:20:47 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: BipolarBob
" "harbored the virus for at least five years and then transmitted it via semen to a sex partner!"
BipolarBob :"They should have been wearing masks.
/s "

kinda kinky !
Ya think ?

29 posted on 03/13/2021 9:28:11 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Chicken pox virus can hide in bone marrow for 6 decades, to emerge later as shingles.


30 posted on 03/13/2021 9:33:21 AM PST by entropy12 (Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have severe consequences.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

What a mess. Given that we’re under a new administration that would presumably be more reluctant to impose travel bans, perhaps those vaccines should be offered to the general public.


31 posted on 03/13/2021 9:37:26 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: Grampa Dave

covid-19 is airborne virus, therefor most easily spread from breath, sneeze, cough of infected person.

Skin on fingers and palm is too tough for the virus to invade the body. It spreads most easily through mucous surfaces. Such as nose, mouth, genitalia, etc.

That is why when in a store where you can touch hundreds of places other people have touched, you are not at high risk unless you touch your nose, mouth or eyes with contaminated hands. And also be careful in rest room holding your own.


32 posted on 03/13/2021 9:39:28 AM PST by entropy12 (Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have severe consequences.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Tolerance Sucks Rocks :" .. a new administration that would presumably be more reluctant to impose travel bans,
perhaps those vaccines should be offered to the general public."

Better to give vaccines to the Border agents, ICE, Immigration, and Homeland Security officers (DHS),
who are more likely than most to run into infected migrants under normal working conditions.
They are all our 'first line of defense' for infectious diseases coming into the country, regardless of which administration controls the border.

33 posted on 03/13/2021 10:05:08 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: entropy12

That is why when in a store where you can touch hundreds of places other people have touched, you are not at high risk unless you touch your nose, mouth or eyes with contaminated hands. And also be careful in rest room holding your own.

So don’t kiss, lick or slobber over anything in a store.:)


34 posted on 03/13/2021 10:11:38 AM PST by Grampa Dave ("The Covid 19 Circus has run out of acts. It’s time to reopen. It is past time! It’s long overdue! ")
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To: Grampa Dave

“ So don’t kiss, lick or slobber over anything in a store.:)”

Especially door knobs


35 posted on 03/13/2021 10:38:10 AM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Well that .... sucks?


36 posted on 03/13/2021 10:39:55 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Trans Undocumented. Anti Woke Supremacist. Covid Abortionist.)
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To: dsrtsage

Especially door knobs!

I will put that into my don’t do file:“ So don’t kiss, lick or slobber over anything in a store.:)”

Especially door knobs


37 posted on 03/13/2021 1:07:20 PM PST by Grampa Dave ("The Covid 19 Circus has run out of acts. It’s time to reopen. It is past time! It’s long overdue! ")
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To: entropy12

Chicken pox virus can hide in bone marrow for 6 decades, to emerge later as shingles.

I just bounced that off my very smart semi retired RN/wife.

She said “Oh yes! Particularly facial and neck bones.”


38 posted on 03/13/2021 1:14:16 PM PST by Grampa Dave ("The Covid 19 Circus has run out of acts. It’s time to reopen. It is past time! It’s long overdue! ")
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

I used to have a tagline with a quote from the CDC site stating they had no idea how Ebola was transferred.

Then they said it lived in semen for 6 months. Guess they meant 6 years. Such bozos.


39 posted on 03/15/2021 7:54:36 AM PDT by bgill (Which came first, Covid-19 or Gates and Fauci's mRNA-1273 Moderna vax?)
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