Can it go dormant and then pop up...even if you have lived through it the first time? In other words, can you become a carrier?
That’s what I have been wondering... if there can be an “Ebola Sam” or whatever like there was a Typhoid Mary...
If you recover, you continue shedding active virus for up to 12 weeks.
No.
There is a documented case of a wife contracting Ebola 82 days AFTER her husband recovered from it. It was found that Ebola will remain alive in the testicles for an unknown length of time. As the man with the Ebola antibodies passes infected semen, those antibodies fight off a relapse of the disease in that man. However, there is near certain, AIDS like infecting for the receiving partner.
The virus will eventually clear, but it may remain in some fluids (seminal fluid, breast milk) for several weeks after symptoms subside. As another poster mentioned, live virus has been found in semen 82 days after illness onset. In breast milk, live virus was found after about 40 days.
As far as I know, no one becomes a carrier.
The virus will eventually clear, but it may remain in some fluids (seminal fluid, breast milk) for several weeks after symptoms subside. As another poster mentioned, live virus has been found in semen 82 days after illness onset. In breast milk, live virus was found after about 40 days.
As far as I know, no one becomes a carrier.