Ebola

[gadget99]

Hi All,

As some may know.

A nurse that went to Africa to help out with the Ebola outbreak, is in critical condition at the moment.

The scary part of this is that she was treated with an experimental drug. declared ok and released earlier this year. So she has been interacting with the public since Jan.

Now she is back in an isolation ward.

Anyone think there might be an issue here?

[Nemo]

Here is more details.  See link and intro below.  I brought over about 10%.  Go read the rest.

Issue?  Dayum right.  Read about the live virus in people who had negative blood test.  As in fluid in eyeballs, semen and stuff.  It ain't gone yet.

IIRC she was treated with experimental vaccine made from the surviving Docs blood an such.  And like  Yogi said, it ain't over, till its over.  It ain't over yet.

Nemo

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/16/how-pauline-cafferkeys-ebola-relapse-tears-up-everything-doctors-thought-they-knew

How Pauline Cafferkey's Ebola relapse tears up everything doctors thought they knew

Doctors and scientists are amazed and appalled at the Scottish nurse’s relapse, which has worrying implications for the thousands of survivors in west Africa

Since 1976, when the Ebola virus was first identified, doctors racing to remote villages in African forests have thought they had a reasonable idea of what those infected were facing. The disease was grim – a hemorrhagic fever which caused copious bleeding and often death – but some people could and did fully recover. Now that is in question.

When nurse Pauline Cafferkey was admitted back into the infectious diseases unit of the Royal Free hospital in London on 9 October, nine months after recovering from Ebola, and then became critically ill, all the previous assumptions about the long-term effects of this virus had to be torn up.

Doctors and scientists are amazed and appalled. It is horrible for Cafferkey and her family, but the implications of her new illness are much more wide-reaching. The UK has a world-class health service. Cafferkey’s family were angry that the possibility that her symptoms were linked to Ebola was not immediately picked up, but even though she did not have the usual fever and vomiting, within days the virus had been identified once more and she had been flown to specialised care.

But a resurgence of illness that did not look like classic Ebola in survivors in countries with fragile or collapsed health systems, such as Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea or – for that matter – DRC or Uganda, which have had outbreaks in the past, would not have been recognised. It is entirely possible that people have died from Ebola complications unnoticed, months after their initial recovery, and more could still die.

[gadget99]

My heart goes out to this lady and her family.

While this may not be the world wrecking pandemic we fear. It does however portent how human arrogance can lead to a pandemic.

Thanks

Rob