Posted on 02/23/2016 3:51:12 PM PST by bgill
"We can confirm that Pauline Cafferkey is being transferred to the Royal Free Hospital due to a late complication from her previous infection by the Ebola virus," the hospital said in a statement. "She will now be treated by the hospital's infectious diseases team under nationally agreed guidelines." After being transferred from Sierra Leone to Britain, Cafferkey initially recovered from the Ebola hemorrhagic fever and was sent home in January last year. But in October she fell ill again and doctors found the virus was persisting in tissues in her brain. They later said she had developed meningitis caused by the Ebola virus - the first known such case.
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Is this the same CDC that you speak of that is hot on the trail of the Zeka virus? Might be, they stated today that there was nothing to fear unless you were pregnant, have sex, get bitten by an infected mosquito, go outside, etc. Yep they are right on top of it .... they have an entire team researching “how to spell quarantine”!
(PP = Non-silent P, as in P-sycho. PPsycho, PPsycho.)
Sanpaku
Is that Japanese for PPsycho?
I never got the disease but still test positive with the TB tine test.
Astonishing to me.
In East Africa, they vaccinate against TB. This "BCG" shot causes recipients thereafter to test "Positive" for TB since the attenuated bacillus causes to body to develop antibodies against TB.
This is the NHS, no upfront bills. She will get treated until she is clear. You are reading far too much into that phrase.
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While in grad school, another test was performed. A drop of my blood was mixed with an orange carrier fluid containing very fine teflon balls. The basis of the test is that antigens and antibodies in the plasma will coat the teflon balls. If you have antibodies against your own antigens, the balls will clump. Most of my fellow students conducted the test and had no clumps after rocking the slide for 10 minutes. Mine was different. Three rocks and the blob coagulated hard against the slide. A positive. The most common observation is this shows rheumatoid arthritis in coming in the future. I was 21 then, 59 now. Bingo. Rheumatoid arthritis.
Take both tests together and I have one disease (RA) best treated with immuno suppression. The other disease (Valley Fever) relies on a good immune system to keep at bay. I keep the RA at bay with antioxidants, ibuprofen and turmeric. It's slowly chewing on me. The hot immune system keeps me very healthy otherwise.
Thanks!
“I was 21 then, 59 now. Bingo. Rheumatoid arthritis.”
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Amazing !
My DIL has RA——tough disease.I know nothing about Valley Fever.
To show my ignorance I thought Teflon was only used for frying pans-———and John Gotti, :-)
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