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British nurse who recovered from Ebola back in hospital (3rd time)
Reuters ^ | Feb. 23, 2016 | Estelle Shirbon and Kate Holton

Posted on 02/23/2016 3:51:12 PM PST by bgill

"We can confirm that Pauline Cafferkey is being transferred to the Royal Free Hospital due to a late complication from her previous infection by the Ebola virus," the hospital said in a statement. "She will now be treated by the hospital's infectious diseases team under nationally agreed guidelines." After being transferred from Sierra Leone to Britain, Cafferkey initially recovered from the Ebola hemorrhagic fever and was sent home in January last year. But in October she fell ill again and doctors found the virus was persisting in tissues in her brain. They later said she had developed meningitis caused by the Ebola virus - the first known such case.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: ebola; sierraleone; uk
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This is the third time she's been hospitalized further proving a statement from the CDC web site in my tagline. They are clueless.

The evening news is reporting they're learning it's much easier to transfer the Zika virus through sex than they thought. Remember when they finally admitted the same with Ebola saying not to have sex for six months after being cured. Sorry, if you're infectious, you are NOT cured. If you have to be hospitalized three times in 13 months, you're NOT cured. Totally clueless.

1 posted on 02/23/2016 3:51:12 PM PST by bgill
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they keep saying recovered, i don't think it means what THEY think it means...
2 posted on 02/23/2016 3:54:31 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: bgill

“Nationall Agreed Guidelines”

This phrase scares the shit out of me. What this means is that they’ll treat her until her bill gets too high.


3 posted on 02/23/2016 3:59:34 PM PST by Celerity
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“she fell ill again and doctors found the virus was persisting in tissues in her brain.”

Maybe this is how zombies are created,too.


4 posted on 02/23/2016 4:07:33 PM PST by dynachrome (We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.)
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To: bgill
Totally clueless

Remember back when the AIDS Virus started spreading? Folks were assured it could only be spread by homosexuals in explicit sex acts. Oops.

It's hard to imagine that once one gets exposed to a disease, it ever totally disappears. It goes into remission.

5 posted on 02/23/2016 4:07:55 PM PST by grania
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“Remember back when the AIDS Virus started spreading? Folks were assured it could only be spread by homosexuals in explicit sex acts. Oops.”

That’s pretty much he most common way it is spread. That and infected needles.

Back in the 1980’s the CDC was pushing the idea that it was very easy to spread sexually and that it would break out into the heterosexual population. They were trying to get additional research money by scaring the general population.


6 posted on 02/23/2016 4:45:46 PM PST by DugwayDuke
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To: Chode

I thought Obola cured Ebola.


7 posted on 02/23/2016 5:02:52 PM PST by sagar (3 way race; cranky populist - Trump/Sanders, establishment - Hillary/Roobio, conservative - Cruz!)
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To: grania

“It’s hard to imagine that once one gets exposed to a disease, it ever totally disappears.”

I was exposed to TB in 1937.

I never got the disease but still test positive with the TB tine test.

Astonishing to me.

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8 posted on 02/23/2016 5:13:11 PM PST by Mears
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To: bgill
Paging Kaci Hickox, the so-called American nurse who was quite willing to defy quarantine after treating ebola patients in Africa, and thereby risk the lives of every American.

She doesn't like it when people call her "ebola nurse".

Tough luck, woman.

Typhoid Mary was already taken.

9 posted on 02/23/2016 5:13:21 PM PST by null and void (This is "They live", and most people would rather fight you than put on the glasses...)
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to hear him tell it anyway
10 posted on 02/23/2016 5:15:37 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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Folks were assured it could only be spread by homosexuals in explicit sex acts. Oops.

That wasn't the story at all.

We were told it could be spread simply through sex, and as it was presented, nearly randomly, almost depending on wind direction.

It took years before the homosexual and dirty needles angle was allowed in the news.

11 posted on 02/23/2016 5:21:11 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: DugwayDuke

“Remember back when the AIDS Virus started spreading? Folks were assured it could only be spread by homosexuals in explicit sex acts. Oops.”

That’s pretty much he most common way it is spread. That and infected needles.

Back in the 1980’s the CDC was pushing the idea that it was very easy to spread sexually and that it would break out into the heterosexual population. They were trying to get additional research money by scaring the general population.>>>> very true and the guy who discovered the retrovirus stated that the homosexuals where dying from wasting diseases due ti their live style. snow parties = ling disease, etc.


12 posted on 02/23/2016 5:25:22 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ebola Ping...maybe..."complications".

A link to this article has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

13 posted on 02/23/2016 5:27:39 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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It took years before the homosexual and dirty needles angle was allowed in the news.

Really. The first name for the disease, before AIDS was adopted, was GRID. You may want to recall what that acronym meant.

14 posted on 02/23/2016 5:29:40 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Mears

That’s because it tests for antibodies.


15 posted on 02/23/2016 5:31:54 PM PST by firebrand
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To: hinckley buzzard

GRID == “Gawd, Reagan is Dumb!” /lib-mode>


16 posted on 02/23/2016 5:32:16 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Wrong. It was originally called GRID, gay-related immune deficiency.


17 posted on 02/23/2016 5:33:30 PM PST by firebrand
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“...meningitis caused by the Ebola virus - the first known such case.”

Has anyone ever lived long enough before from Ebola to get it? That’s just a “LOL” moment for me. Great reporting. /sarc


18 posted on 02/23/2016 5:34:42 PM PST by pops88 (Geek chick standing with Breitbart for truth)
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To: kvanbrunt2

It spreads in a promiscuous community. The one here in which it got started was the gay community. In Africa, it was the straight males who spread it by going to prostitutes and then home to their wives. There are also other reasons why it spreads more easily among gay men.


19 posted on 02/23/2016 5:36:20 PM PST by firebrand
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To: Chode

Recovered.

Buried, dug up, buried again!


20 posted on 02/23/2016 5:37:49 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
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