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U.S. doctor stricken with Ebola said to be improving
Reuters ^ | 08/03/2014 | BY RICH MCKAY

Posted on 08/03/2014 10:00:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Edited on 08/03/2014 10:53:30 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Dr Kent Brantly, a 33-year-old father of two young children, was able to walk, with help, from an ambulance after he was flown on Saturday to Atlanta, where he was being treated by infectious disease specialists at Emory University Hospital.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: disease; ebola
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To: sten
this’ll do wonders for the conspiracy folks

When a government, and it's lapdog media, continually lie to the people, even about things that may be inconsequential, when does a prudent individual BELIEVE what they are saying - NEVER!

I'm afraid it has come to that point-("Not a smidgen of corruption!")

21 posted on 08/03/2014 11:11:31 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Deliver us, oh LORD, from the EVIL that has befallen our once Great GOD fearing land!)
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To: Selene
He had been previously tested on July 18, with a negative result.

So there have been false negatives. I have been concerned about this, since I heard of all these passengers allowed to go on their respective flights after exhibiting symptoms at the airport, but testing negative.

This is not very comforting. At all.

22 posted on 08/03/2014 11:23:05 AM PDT by Shelayne
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To: Covenantor

Before he arrived in Atlanta, Dr. Brantley received a blood transfusion from a 14-year-old that survived the virus, which apparently has worked for some patients in the past. Perhaps it is working this time as well. That is my prayer.

I wonder how Nancy is doing. Has she arrived also, or is she still in Africa? She is the one who received the experimental serum.


23 posted on 08/03/2014 11:32:23 AM PDT by Shelayne
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To: sten

Obama should change his name to Alfred E Nobama (Neumann). He is the “what me worry” president!


24 posted on 08/03/2014 11:39:20 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Covenantor

What did they do for him that less ythan 24 hrs later he’s improving.

Answered prayer.


25 posted on 08/03/2014 12:03:40 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
Doesn’t the mortality rate go down 10% with each transmission to a new host? IIRC, humans aren’t good hosts and the virus weakens each time it is passed on to a new host.

This is most certainly not applicable to Ebola filovirus.

26 posted on 08/03/2014 12:12:55 PM PDT by steve86 ( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: Principled

Exactly. We’re to chalk it up to mere coincidence they left one day and the next he’s sick. Reports from the family was he was fading fast but he walked to the ER across gravel that was surely cutting into his Tyvek suit. Now, after mere hours in a US hospital, he’s improving. Excuse me while I add another layer of tin foil to my hat.


27 posted on 08/03/2014 12:15:48 PM PDT by bgill
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To: ozaukeemom
I really hate words like “unlikely” when it comes to things like someone contracting a deadly disease.

"Unlikely" is a nice warm fuzzy until you're the one who contracts something with a high mortality rate.

28 posted on 08/03/2014 12:21:48 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Blue Highway

actually, he’s being referred to as president ebola or barak hussein ebola


29 posted on 08/03/2014 2:26:59 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: sten

It already has, the conspiracies and screaming panic are flying on many of these threads.


30 posted on 08/03/2014 4:41:45 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: Covenantor

Replace the fluids he was losing?

He has also received blood from one of his recovered patients, for the antibodies.

This is from a 1995 outbreak. “”By the time Robert Colebunders arrived in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo (known as Zaire at the time), on June 15 of 1995, the Ebola virus had ravaged the city of 250,000 and the neighboring area for nearly 6 months. The hospitals in the riverport town were empty; patients and healthcare workers had fled to other parts of the country for fear of contracting the deadly disease, which would ultimately affect 317 people and kill 245.””
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“”“The Americans and Scientists from the States didnt believe it could work,” says Colebunders, but the Congolese doctors did it anyway. The same blood transfusion procedure was repeated for seven others who were ill, the final group of Ebola-stricken patients in the hospital.
The results were staggering: seven of the eight survived.””


31 posted on 08/03/2014 4:53:31 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: ansel12

Thank goodness. God bless him.


32 posted on 08/03/2014 4:54:37 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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