Spread? It’s being brought here intentionally.
That Doctor and Nurse in Atlanta? How long will they be shedding Ebola HF virus? Days? Weeks?
As a physician, the more I dig around in literature on viruses the more amazed I am that everything we’re told to tell patients in clinical practice is either flat-out wrong, or intentionally obtuse. I can’t tell and the difference is killing us.
For example, we’re told to tell patients who take antivirals for influenza virus that they’re okay to go back to work 24 hours after their last fever/while on the antiviral. Fact is, they can be shedding flu virus for 72 hours or MORE after they’re asymptomatic of fever.
Infectious mono? A month and you’re back in the game? Contact sports okay? Fine, but how long will you be shedding virus? A month? Three? Try upwards of six to 12 months and 18 months isn’t unheard of, fact is, mono virus (EBC, CMV) are like the gift that keeps on giving being one of the four most common causes of recurrent fever in adult populations. You could be shedding the virus and not even know it YEARS after the primary illness which you get as a toddler, not high school or college.
Chicken pox? Fugeddaboudit. You can be shedding virus before you feel the first tingle or burn of shingles and the same holds true of other herpes viruses.
Strep bacterial infections is even MORE fun, as about 25% of humans carry group A strep (colonized), spreading it with every handshake.
So what about Ebola HF? That’s what I’d like to know. Very little is known or published about this kind of data and it’s crucial to know before those two in Atlanta are released to the general population to put us all at risk. I’ve read that the virus can be found in some body fluids for several weeks after recovery. Does that put the good doctor in isolation into September? Longer?
The current outbreak isn’t the Zaire strain that kills up to 90%, it’s “only” the strain that kills about 50% of those infected but that sounds like Vegas odds to me where the house always wins.
So why bring such an unknown into the country?
Who made this decision? On whose authority?
Inquiring minds want to know.
See post 39.
Those two won’t be what decides if America gets an Ebola breakout or not.
If was just about those two, then we wouldn’t have anything to worry about, instead we all understand what the real threat is, mass traveling and mass immigration and mass illegal immigration.
Ebola Zaire can be found in the semen for up to six weeks after infection.
I concur. The information we are getting is crap.
It is the Zaire strain. The strain used to kill more people 39 years ago. because of increased availability of medical care, they have reduced it to 60% or lower..