Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2015 2:00:13 GMT -6
Now this is a very interesting thing to consider. If true, it would be the most encouraging thing to learn about this Ebola strain yet.
Apparently it is a real debate back and forth between the experts. Though, not without real basis for considering it as a possibility.
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The more I'd looked into this bug last year and read reports/manual information from things like USAMRIID's handbook and the CDC material they have for their own people (before political happened in this outbreak, particularly) the more it became obvious it is a weird one. It comes, kills viciously and mercilessly, then just fades away again. Over and over. Specific studies of it in past outbreaks have shown high enough mortality rates for some instances to pretty much call it a death sentence. Then, we have America where no one infected here, died here. The only one who did, got it elsewhere and arrived here advanced enough to already be mildly symptomatic.
It's a weird bug though, so this just wouldn't shock me. Unfortunately, the article is also shared simply as an interesting story about that factor in what Ebola has seen true before and may be seeing some examples of now.
The positive tones of recovery didn't last, and the date on it is the middle of last month. This is the latest from the CDC....
Ebola Outbreak - Cumulative Reported Cases Graphs / Case Totals (Last Updated on the 27th)
One can even see the variation in the lines right about the range of where the optimism in the first article came in. Still, it's not blowing into the expanding epidemic once feared. That is a positive thing.
A recent sharp drop in new Ebola infections in West Africa is prompting scientists to wonder whether the virus may be silently immunising some people at the same time as brutally killing their neighbours.
So-called "asymptomatic" Ebola cases - in which someone is exposed to the virus, develops antibodies, but doesn't get sick or suffer symptoms - are hotly disputed among scientists, with some saying their existence is little more than a pipe dream.
So-called "asymptomatic" Ebola cases - in which someone is exposed to the virus, develops antibodies, but doesn't get sick or suffer symptoms - are hotly disputed among scientists, with some saying their existence is little more than a pipe dream.
Apparently it is a real debate back and forth between the experts. Though, not without real basis for considering it as a possibility.
Bellan points to two studies in particular. One, conducted after an Ebola outbreak in Gabon in 1997, found that 71 percent of "seropositive" people - those with traces of the Ebola virus in their blood - did not have the disease. The other, published in April 2002, found 46 percent of asymptomatic close contacts of patients with Ebola were seropositive.
Some researchers say they have identified a few cases in the current outbreak with mild symptoms and low concentrations of Ebola virus in the blood. One was a Guinean student who travelled to Senegal and is not known to have infected anyone else, despite having contact with dozens of people.
The more I'd looked into this bug last year and read reports/manual information from things like USAMRIID's handbook and the CDC material they have for their own people (before political happened in this outbreak, particularly) the more it became obvious it is a weird one. It comes, kills viciously and mercilessly, then just fades away again. Over and over. Specific studies of it in past outbreaks have shown high enough mortality rates for some instances to pretty much call it a death sentence. Then, we have America where no one infected here, died here. The only one who did, got it elsewhere and arrived here advanced enough to already be mildly symptomatic.
It's a weird bug though, so this just wouldn't shock me. Unfortunately, the article is also shared simply as an interesting story about that factor in what Ebola has seen true before and may be seeing some examples of now.
The positive tones of recovery didn't last, and the date on it is the middle of last month. This is the latest from the CDC....
Ebola Outbreak - Cumulative Reported Cases Graphs / Case Totals (Last Updated on the 27th)
One can even see the variation in the lines right about the range of where the optimism in the first article came in. Still, it's not blowing into the expanding epidemic once feared. That is a positive thing.