Posted on 01/16/2017 1:52:57 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
People who survive Ebola may still battle debilitating health problems a year after being declared infection-free,
according to an ongoing trial in Guinea which highlighted the need for patient followup.
Three-quarters of survivors had post-Ebola symptoms when they enrolled for the trial about a year, on average, after they were discharged from hospital, researchers reported Saturday.
Eighteen percent experienced eye problems, including eight individuals who went blind, a team wrote in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.br> Two percent—19 people—were deaf.
This is the largest and longest-running assessment of Ebola survivors to date.
Nearly one in four participants, the study said, suffered joint and muscle pain, 35 percent had headaches, and 22 percent stomach pain when they enrolled.
Seventeen percent had symptoms of depression.
The study also confirmed previous observations that Ebola virus can remain in the semen of infected men for 18 months or longer, raising the spectre of sexual transmission.(emphasis Mine)
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
Together, the group represented 74 percent of Guinean survivors of the 2013-16 Ebola epidemic in west Africa—by far the worst outbreak in the disease's 40-year history.
Some 11,300 people died in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, compared to a total of 1,700 worldwide in the preceding four decades.
An estimated 17,000 survived the most recent outbreak.
"The high number of survivors... has raised several new issues: long-term clinical complications, psychosocial consequences, risks of EVD (Ebola virus disease)
reactivation and secondary transmission due to viral persistence in body fluids," the study authors wrote. (Emphasis mine)
Long term Assessment of Ebola Survivors yields suprising long-term effects
Well, death is a fairly long term effect..............
I guess that moron doctor who ran around NYC is having a headache - long after he caused his fellow New Yorkers to have a major headache as he dined in Brooklyn, lived in Manhattan and took in the beauties of our great city all the while knowing he had Ebola. He’s been pretty quiet of late; not feeling well?
Once again, thank the civilized world for saving the bat eating dimwits and their continent. Nature normally has a way of dealing with retards that follow islam and other flat Earth nonsense.
Obama, Congress, CDC officials and anyone else who was in the position to quarantine ebola countries and did not, should have to do community service in ebola stricken communities as punishment for potentially exposing people to it.
“Nearly one in four participants, the study said, suffered joint and muscle pain, 35 percent had headaches, and 22 percent stomach pain when they enrolled.
“Seventeen percent had symptoms of depression.
Where is the control group of randomly selected people from similar backgrounds who did NOT have Ebola? If than 22 percent of them have stomach pain, what are the researchers going to say?
What doesn’t kill you makes your stronger. I wonder if their offspring will be immune? Small consolation, I guess.
I don't recall seeing a control group in the article.
This was a statistical study of the long-term effects of Ebola virus, the aside incidence of reported depression is merely an incidental observation.
The emphasis of this report deals with long-term and lingering physical effects of contracting ebola, and duration of the effects .
That British nurse has had several recurring bouts years later.
Every time I think my tagline is getting outdated, Ebola sticks its ugly head up again.
Thanks for the ping.
They could be deaf or blind from the fluoroquinolone antibiotics, which have been cited as causing peripheral nerve damage in some instances.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
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