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Biotech / Medical : Ebola Outbreak 2014 - News, Updates and Related Investments

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From: IRWIN JAMES FRANKEL	11/3/2014 7:23:39 AM
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The fear of infection and easy transmission have been hyped. Yet as we watched this unfold, it has become increasingly obvious that transmission risk is really a later stage disease factor. The latest/best evidence for that statement is here: nejm.org Quote:Furthermore, we now know that fever precedes the contagious stage, allowing workers who are unknowingly infected to identify themselves before they become a threat to their community. This understanding is based on more than clinical observation: the sensitive blood polymerase-chain-reaction (PCR) test for Ebola is often negative on the day when fever or other symptoms begin and only becomes reliably positive 2 to 3 days after symptom onset. This point is supported by the fact that of the nurses caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, the man who died from Ebola virus disease in Texas in October, only those who cared for him at the end of his life, when the number of virions he was shedding was likely to be very high, became infected. Notably, Duncan's family members who were living in the same household for days as he was at the start of his illness did not become infected.

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