I just have to point out: Ebola in pregnant women is vastly different than Ebola in another person. The virus attacks the fetus. Even doctors have been fooled into thinking that it’s a miscarriage or a complication of pregnancy because the symptoms do not fit.
I do have to say that there is a story of a doctor who’s pregnant wife died. He thought she died from pregnancy complications, but it turns out that it was ebola.
This disease behaves completely different in a pregnant body. The horror stories of what is does to a fetus are beyond description.
No. You do not know for sure that a pregnant woman has ebola. The virus goes right for the fetus and kills her that way. Pregnant women do not have a chance against this virus. (something else the cdc isn’t mentioning to the public.)
I am frustrated that people on this thread are blaming Duncan for not giving an accurate diagnosis for a specific situation that has fooled *actual* doctors that *specialize* in treating ebola.
With that said, is the story even true? The nephew is saying that the whole pregnant woman story never happened. Where did that story originate? Some African gossip column?
The real culprit is the Obama administration and we cannot lose focus on that. They have endangered us all and continue to do so. The CDC director is talking out of both sides of his mouth and is now officially an idiot.
Stop blaming the victim and place the blame directly on the shoulders of the people in charge who have caused and fueled the fire of this calamity.
http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/179/Supplement_1/S11.long
the moratality for pregnant women diagnosed with ebola is 95.5% the fetus never survives. the virus attacks the fetus. it’s horrible. even women at full-term are not immune to the destruction.
the fetus liquifies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/world/africa/ebola-victim-texas-thomas-eric-duncan.html?_r=0
They also lost their son (in an ambulance on his way to the hospital with ebola) who started getting sick at the same time as Mr. Duncan.