Christie's controversial Ebola quarantine now embraced by Nobel Prize-winning doctor

nj ^ | 10/28/14

[knak]

TRENTON — After days of blistering criticism from the ACLU, the CDC and even the United Nations secretary general over Gov. Chris Christie’s new, 21-day mandatory quarantine policy for all healthcare workers exposed to Ebola, the New Jersey governor has gotten a much-needed vote of support from a heavyweight name in the medical community: Nobel Prize-winning doctor and medical researcher, Dr. Bruce Beutler.

Dr. Beutler, an American medical doctor and researcher, won the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 2011 for his work researching the cellular subsystem of the body’s overall immune system — the part of it that defends the body from infection by other organisms, like Ebola.

snip: It may not be absolutely true that those without symptoms can’t transmit the disease, because we don’t have the numbers to back that up,” said Beutler, “It could be people develop significant viremia [where viruses enter the bloodstream and gain access to the rest of the body], and become able to transmit the disease before they have a fever, even. People may have said that without symptoms you can’t transmit Ebola. I’m not sure about that being 100 percent true. There’s a lot of variation with viruses.”

[exDemMom]

http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2014/08/what-does-ebola-actually-do?intcmp=collection-ebola

There are several articles that establish that the liver is a site of prolific viral growth. I think what might happen is that the shedding of virus from the liver causes the blood to contain a high number of viruses.

It is true that the virus infects a few different cell types, including cells of the immune system (which live primarily in blood). The preferences for different cell types depends on a number of factors, but is not equal for all of the cell types it infects.

[bert]

——When you are uncertain-—

Ahhh... there you have the crux of the problem. The science is uncertain until political pressure compresses the uncertainty into the certainty of political expediency.

The president will never settle for uncertainty. He demands and gets certainty to carry the day until the election is over and as far as he is concerned, the problem, the real political problem is over. Deaths and destruction are never his problem. Maintaining the senate is the only problem

America’s problem is Obama....... he must be gone