ebola, anyone else mildly terrified?

[Thankyou4calling]

Here we go again.

Unleash the scaremongering.

If it's not rabies, BSE, bird flu, swine flu or HIV they have to latch on to something.

It didn't kill a million and didn't mutate.

[irocfan]

Thankyou4calling said:

Here we go again.

Unleash the scaremongering.

If it's not rabies, BSE, bird flu, swine flu or HIV they have to latch on to something.

It didn't kill a million and didn't mutate.

just in time to take Greece and the EU problems away from the headlines... cynical? Moi?

[kev1974]

Things are looking up, Sierra Leone reckoned to have got their outbreaks fully under control and dealt with now
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015...

[Murph7355]

kev1974 said:

Things are looking up, Sierra Leone reckoned to have got their outbreaks fully under control and dealt with now
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015...

A good friend of mine's a doctor who went there. I'm not sure I'd trust any news coming out of that country.

Horrendous disease.

[Mr GrimNasty]

Scottish nurse back in isolation, reinfected from virus lurking hidden in organs/marrow etc. from the sounds of it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-34483584

[soad]

Mr GrimNasty said:

Scottish nurse back in isolation, reinfected from virus lurking hidden in organs/marrow etc. from the sounds of it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-34483584

I think it lurks in sperm too, posted a link ages ago.

[DonnyMac]

soad said:

Mr GrimNasty said:

Scottish nurse back in isolation, reinfected from virus lurking hidden in organs/marrow etc. from the sounds of it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-34483584

I think it lurks in sperm too, posted a link ages ago.

She may have showered since the last time she was in for Ebola.

[eldar]

Now critically ill.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-34529575

[otolith]

I wonder if she's infectious?

[El Guapo]

Her condition is worsening

This bit stood out for me

BBC said:

Ms Cafferkey had initially gone to an out-of-hours doctor in Glasgow on Monday of last week, but was sent home after being told she probably had a virus.

<facepalm>

ETA simulpost of link with eldar

[croyde]

El Guapo said:

Her condition is worsening

This bit stood out for me

BBC said:

Ms Cafferkey had initially gone to an out-of-hours doctor in Glasgow on Monday of last week, but was sent home after being told she probably had a virus.

<facepalm>

ETA simulpost of link with eldar

Some GPs are no better than your Auntie Mable.

[Petrus1983]

Surely this is hugely concerning - aside from the UK nurse does it mean there's many, many people in Africa just incubating the virus right now rather than actually being cured/dead?

[Bill]

Petrus1983 said:

Surely this is hugely concerning - aside from the UK nurse does it mean there's many, many people in Africa just incubating the virus right now rather than actually being cured/dead?

Maybe, maybe not. This is the first time we know of that it's happened aiui. This might be a flare up or just a complication of surviving a heavy dose. As no one who actually knows what is going on has said much its a bit early to say.

[eldar]

Bill said:

Maybe, maybe not. This is the first time we know of that it's happened aiui. This might be a flare up or just a complication of surviving a heavy dose. As no one who actually knows what is going on has said much its a bit early to say.

Devious little bugger, ebola.

[darreni]

Scary to think she has been back as a community nurse & has been recently inoculating children.

[otolith]

The number of people who have survived Ebola as a result of aggressive medical treatment is tiny compared to the number who have survived because they had supportive care while their immune system fought it off. We know that one of the other Western survivors continued to harbour the virus in his eyeballs. Perhaps relapse is a complication in people treated with the experimental antivirals or the plasma of survivors.

[funkyrobot]

Someone on the news last night stated that it may be her own immune system going nuts.

Whatever it is, she sounds quite ill.

[dandarez]

croyde said:

El Guapo said:

Her condition is worsening

This bit stood out for me

BBC said:

Ms Cafferkey had initially gone to an out-of-hours doctor in Glasgow on Monday of last week, but was sent home after being told she probably had a virus.

<facepalm>

ETA simulpost of link with eldar

Some GPs are no better than your Auntie Mable.

Rubbish!
Auntie Mable would have made her wrap warm, go to bed ...and 'not' to go out.

[rohrl]

To be fair, she has got a virus.

Poor woman. It doesn't look good for her but I hope she pulls through.

[Mr GrimNasty]

Pauline Cafferkey has made (another!) full recovery, lucky woman, must be a fighter though.