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   md777 replied to nurse2033's topic in COVID

   Elkpark, you are not being rational to compare Ebola to all other diseases, most of which don't have as high a death rate as Ebola. When you are dealing with a disease that has this high a death rate you need to be extra careful. With diseases tha...

2. Testing for ebola; negative vs not positive

   md777 replied to MunoRN's topic in COVID

   According to the following article, which quotes Dr. Beutner, a Nobel-prize winning physician who did his research on the immune system, and which also quotes the New England Journal of Medicine, 13% of Ebola patients exhibit no symptoms at all. Dr....

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   md777 replied to nurse2033's topic in COVID

   Glycerine 82, not necessarily true. According to the following article, which quotes Dr. Beutner, Nobel-prize winning phyician and the New England Journal of Medicine, 13% of Ebola patients exhibit no symptoms at all and these patients could potenti...

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   md777 replied to nurse2033's topic in COVID

   To recap, what this means is that 13% of Ebola patients exhibit no symptoms at all, yet they could be spreading the disease to someone else. This is very alarming. For this reason I support a quarantine for all those who have come in contact with a...

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   md777 replied to nurse2033's topic in COVID

   According to the following New England Journal of Medicine article, 89% of patients with Ebola presented with a fever; this means that 11% do not. This also means that health care workers returning from Africa after taking care of Ebola patients an...

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   md777 replied to nurse2033's topic in COVID

   Here's some more science. The Ebola virus can survive on a surface for quite a while. This fact alone shows that we need to be very cautious with Ebola and err on the side of caution. Here's the article: The survival of filoviruses in liquids, on...

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   md777 replied to nurse2033's topic in COVID

   Many nurses are saying to "look at the science." Here's some more science. In the following article by the WHO, they say the incubation period for Ebola is 21 days, but then they admit that for 3% of Ebola cases, the incubation period was up to 42 ...

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   md777 replied to nurse2033's topic in COVID

   Many against the quarantine are saying to look at the science. OK, let's do. Dr. Bruce Beutner, a Nobel prize-winning physician and medical researcher, currently the Director of the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense at the University of Texas ...