To: CorporateStepsister
Question once you survive Ebola are you immune from getting it again?
13 posted on
08/21/2014 11:02:59 AM PDT by
tophat9000
(An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
To: tophat9000
Question once you survive Ebola are you immune from getting it again?
A person from Doctors Without Boarders stated that there is no immunity and the person can catch it again. Don't have the link right now.
15 posted on
08/21/2014 11:08:45 AM PDT by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: tophat9000
“Question once you survive Ebola are you immune from getting it again?”
That particular strain, and more resistant to others.
16 posted on
08/21/2014 11:33:13 AM PDT by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
To: tophat9000
I read that the recovering victim is now immune or at least resistant to the version of the virus they survived. BUT: they are very weak, and there is no way of knowing how many versions there really are.
There are several known, but if you saw another victim, you wouldn’t immediately know which they had or if it was the same that you’d had.
SO, for a variety of reasons, including the fact that Ebola attacks the muscles and weakens the body, he really shouldn’t go right back into the fray.
22 posted on
08/21/2014 12:42:00 PM PDT by
mountainbunny
(Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens ~ J.R.R. Tolkien)
To: tophat9000
There is limited immunity at best. We think so because survived patients’ serum can be used with modest success in a newly infected patient. However, there have not been enough trials of antibody therapy to make a definite statement on this.
25 posted on
08/21/2014 1:03:53 PM PDT by
steve86
( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: tophat9000
I’ll have to research that.
26 posted on
08/21/2014 2:55:43 PM PDT by
CorporateStepsister
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