Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Pestilence

Woman may have passed on Ebola a year after recovery - UPI.com
UPI reports: "A new report suggests that people can survive Ebola and still possibly infect others up to a year later. The finding could mean that continued monitoring for the disease is still necessary after a country has been declared Ebola-free, the researchers said. [...] More than 17,000 people survived the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, and the new findings 'could lead to additional stigma around survivors of Ebola because of the potential persistence of Ebola virus in their body fluids,' wrote Lorenzo Subissi in an accompanying editorial."

Comment: That's unfortunate but I wonder if there might have been some rare and extenuating factors at play in that one case? They should be sure before they make all Ebola survivors fear that they remain carriers.

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