re: Ebola Doc discharged from the hospital

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've read that Ebola can stay in seamen
several weeks after symptoms end.

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Well I would consider you and your buddies "taking a break" for a little while if you know what I mean.

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I've read that Ebola can stay in seamen several weeks after symptoms end.

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It can remain inside of a landlubber's ejaculate, too.


ETA: 3 months is the timeframe I remember, but don't quote me on that. And it's based on something like 20 survivors to the person who suggested there weren't many/any survivors around to test/question whether they're contagious. Other than semen, the survivors weren't infectious.

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I've read that Ebola can stay in seamen several weeks after symptoms end.

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damn, sonnnnn...exactly what kind of shite do you spend your time reading?.....

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Ebola would find a first world environment inhospitable.

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The details of the doctor and nurse's treatment aren't publicly available at present time, but I have a feeling they'll soon enough be written up as case studies in the NEJM (or somewhere pretty big). So I'm not sure as to what they actually did for them or how they treated them, but based on a few in-depth review articles on the pathophysiology of the Ebola family of viruses, isolation, blood pressure support (Normal Saline, packed red blood cells, and pressors (with the latter two likely being the limiting factor in The Third World)), and general supportive therapy (pain control, electrolyte replacement, parenteral nutrition, mechanical ventilation (likely unnecessary in most cases) alone without definitive Ebola treatment would likely drastically reduce the death rate (with specific focus on use of central lines and pressors with or without blood).


This was just two fourth year med students having a discussion, but in short, standard isolation ICU care would probably help a patient "get through" the two-week "danger period" and they would then go on to lead a relatively normal life with relatively few long-term consequences.


that's not to say that a definitive therapy wouldn't be more effective, but general supportive therapy alone would be drastically better in the rural-est hospital in the USA (with an ICU and isolation) than anywhere in the Third World.

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their tests are negative for ebola

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It was malaria all along, according to many knowledgable folk

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