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Biotech / Medical : Ebola Outbreak 2014 - News, Updates and Related Investments
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To: statesidereport who wrote (463)10/28/2014 7:18:44 AM
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Great article Vince, the following caught my eye >>>
Hamblin: And what we're hearing most commonly is that it's around when a person develops a fever.

Well, 12.5 percent of patients don't run a fever. In that New England Journal of Medicine study, where they just looked at several thousand of these cases in West Africa, the lead author of the paper is adamant. He says, I sat there, I monitored this patient's temperature myself until they died and they never ran a fever. Well, generating a fever is a fairly complex mechanism in your body. Neutrophils and cytokines are involved. One of the things a virus does is it inhibits neutrophil activation. Ebola's outer glycoprotein can secrete a truncated version of it. You've seen the planes come over and shoot out the flares so the missile can't get them. That's what Ebola's doing. It's shooting out these little truncated bits of glycoprotein as flares. It's masking itself. Indirectly, its inhibiting neutrophil activation, and what they release tell us to run a fever.

Hamblin: So the neutrophils attack that flare.

Hatfill: They're getting confused by it.

Hamblin: And the immune system says, it's not a big deal, everything's okay.

Hatfill: And they're not releasing pyrogens. This is our best guess. We need to get it in the lab and have a better look at it. And it's not just the West African outbreak. The other outbreaks have reported the same thing fairly consistently. So to use this as a screening measure rather than quarantine measures becomes problematic.

>> self temperature monitoring would seem rather inadequate in these cases, hopefully they are using other monitoring in concert with temperature? Notice that the US Army is not messing around with self-quarantine or allowing their personnel to remain amongst the general population until they pass the 21 day period.
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