Posted on 10/23/2014 10:56:10 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
Barely a week after being diagnosed with Ebola, Texas nurse Amber Vinson is free of the deadly virus, her family said on Wednesday night.
“We are overjoyed to announce that, as of [Tuesday] evening, officials at Emory University Hospital and the Centers for Disease Control are no longer able to detect virus in her body,” read a statement from a family spokesperson.
Jason McDonald, a CDC spokesperson, told Yahoo News late Wednesday that he was not aware of Vinson's recovery.
“Healthcare provider will determine by diagnostic whether a patient is free of Ebola virus,” McDonald said in an email. “We have criteria we ask medical staff to meet but the determination is made by medical care provider.”
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Well, being overly simplistic I will say anything that helps is good. It could make the difference for some people.
Whatever anti-bodies she now has, could help others. That’s a real plus if this is in fact the causal factor.
Did she get a transfusion from an ebola recoverer? That seems to have worked with others.
I suspect a misinterpretation by the family of something told them by the doctors at Emory.
About ten percent of white Europeans carry a gene that mutated 700 years ago during the time of the black plague. The mutation is called CCR5-delta 32.
This gene if inherited from both parents provides and immunity to AIDs. Maybe it also provides some resistance to Ebola.
Maybe Vinson carries the mutation which is also present in two percent of Asians. So Ebola is a racist disease more likely to kill blacks than whites.
Don’t get me wrong—I’m glad she survived, and I understand her being PO’d at the CDC for not instructing medical professionals adequately with their “protocol”, and for insinuating she f’d up. But, I don’t think court is the place for her dissatisfaction.
If every tax payer could sue the other taxpayers for the number of times “the system” doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to, it would never end.
So if the test was faulty then Amber is ready to go out and give ebola to other people?
It would only be justice if Obama turns up with ebola from kissing that nurse.
LOL, please... not too loud.
Perhaps this a factor alone, presented to others, could have a great impact.
(people all develop the plague and die) LOL (couldn’t happen)
Evidently this is not like AIDS, in that you are not a carrier for the rest of your life.
It has to be active in the infectious stage. (gleaned from the incubation period references)
This morning we were talking about Ebola and here are some of the random thoughts we cobbled together:
a. Among those Africans who grow up exposed to Malaria there seems to be some attenuating response. IOW, they don’t get as sick as someone from the US who gets Malaria.
b. While Ebola does kill the majority of patients, I can’t help but wonder if there is some sort of immunity among folks from Africa, something like Malaria, that has not yet been identified.
The way the family was operating during this event, it is pretty evident that it will take a Mack Truck to keep Amber away from her 7 figure dollar settlement.
In the "class" department these two nurses are extreme opposites.
I suppose that, like other diseases, for some people it lasts longer than for others. When I used to get flu, it was generally of much shorter duration than most everyone else.
I'm a Pham fan!
As to Amber, who's to say who is influencing or tempting her. Unscrupulous lawyers can screw everything up.
I would suspect she was much farther along in the infection process when it was first diagnosed. This would mean she was in an infective mode for a considerable length of time prior to diagnosis and isolation. I hope I am wrong.
You’re saying Emory’s and CDC’s best efforts at detecting Ebola are faulty and the patient is just pretending to be without symptoms? LOL
Not yet but after this outbreak there will be a certain percentage of survivors that are genetically superior and thus survived. Their genes will propagate into the gene pool.
Mother Nature is a vicious ruthless bitch.
I believe we all do have different immune systems. I am slow to get ill and I get over it quicker generally as well.
I also believe that exposure to a variety of low level germs as a child can help build up a strong resistance. I spent a little over ten years on a farm when I was three to about fourteen. I credit exposures to various things on that farm to my elevated immunity.
As a kid you don’t wash your hands as often as you should. I probably exposed myself unwittingly to various things that my body fought off and I didn’t even know it.
She would have been given at least three fundamentally different tests and no doubt repeatedly.
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